She had to choose to forgive so that she could find happiness in the future.
She was the one that had to make the lemonade. But White makes it clear that to get where she is now she had to rely on herself. White's words aren't specific she doesn't go through the exact moments, the turning points in her life that forced her to find something good in all that was bad. I was served lemons, but I made lemonade." This is the voice of Hattie White, Jay Z's grandmother, taken from a speech she gave at her 90th birthday party last April in Clayton, Delaware. In the final moments of "Freedom," an older woman's voice is heard saying: "I had my ups and downs, but I always find the inner strength to pull myself up. But who is the woman talking about Lemonade in "Freedom?" But it's not until the last half of the album, on the song "Freedom" featuring Kendrick Lamar, that Beyoncé reveals how the title is much more than a popular saying to encourage optimism she actually has a truly personal connection to the saying. Throughout the 12-track release, Beyoncé talks about infidelity and takes us through the Kübler-Ross stages of grief - now completely Beyoncé-fied - to dealing with the fact that your husband did you wrong. Or in Beyoncé's case, make Lemonade, a revolutionary visual album that focuses on marital strife. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.