Mary J. Blige has said in an interview with Piers Morgan that she wishes she had an upbringing more like superstar Beyoncé Knowles’s.

The 40–year-old insisted on Morgan's CNN show that had her parents stayed together, her path to stardom would have been less rocky saying, “it made me a little sad…I wish I had that growing up, I wish my mom and dad had been together and I wish that they could have saw (sic) me through the music business and managed me and who knows how much further I would be and how much hell I wouldn’t have gone through…”

Blige, whose father left her mother when she was four, admits she envies the singer’s happy childhood, “to look at her life, and to look at how graceful and beautiful and what a lady she is, it just inspired me.”

The 'Mr. Wrong' star continued with,“you gotta look at a life like that [Beyoncé’s], with a mother and a father and a child [that] they’re raising, and they’re in the music business with her where there [are] just so many vultures and people who don’t ever tell you the truth.”

Beyoncé’s parents split in 2009 following allegations that Mathew Knowles fathered a love child with another woman.

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