Candy Spelling Reaches Out To Tori
April 14th, 2009
Candy Spelling has reached out to her famous daughter Tori, after the 90210 star spoke about their strained relationship with PEOPLE magazine on the weekend.
In response to Tori’s candid conversation with the mag, Spelling posted the following message on her official website offering to bury the hatchet:
“Dear Tori:
You haven’t responded to my emails, phone calls and text messages. You say you look at my website, so I’m trying to reach you that way. I want to see you and your family – in private, like the “normal family” you say you always wanted.
With your book coming out tomorrow, the war of words will escalate. That’s not what I want. I want us to be a family.
My fax machine was burning up over the weekend with well-meaning people sending me excerpts of your new book. You write that you don’t want to feel like you kept me apart from your children. You write:
“I would love to have a relationship with her… But I haven’t stepped up to make that happen.
Well, I’m stepping up. Call me, write me, text me.
I’m a mother who, like every mother, wants communication and a great relationship with you, my daughter, and your family. I’d love to work it out the way all families try to resolve issues. In private. But, as I wrote in my book, I was a celebrity by marriage, then a celebrity by motherhood. That means that life is public. I’m used to it. It comes with the territory.
What makes it so difficult is to hear you say things like, I’d like to call my mother, or I love my mother but don’t speak to her, or I think she has my nanny’s phone number. I don’t want a reunion via talk show or to speak through the press. I want a relationship with you and my grandchildren.
I am hopeful.
Love
Mom”
