Tori Spelling: Reconciliation With Mother Was Mutual
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Tori Spelling, who recently gave birth to her first child, says she began reconciling with her mother, Candy, in the last weeks of her pregnancy.
"It was mutual," the 33-year-old actress tells Us Weekly in its April 16 issue. "We both reached out at the same time by phone in the weeks before I had Liam."
Their 9-month estrangement was juicy gossip in the tabloids, with mother and daughter sitting apart during a tribute to famed TV producer Aaron Spelling at the Emmy Awards last August.
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Spelling, who produced shows such as "Beverly Hills, 90210," which starred his daughter, died last June at 83 after suffering a stroke. Other shows he created include "Charlie's Angels" and "Dynasty."
Candy Spelling was in the delivery room when Tori Spelling gave birth to 6-pound, 6-ounce Liam Aaron McDermott by Caesarean section at a Los Angeles hospital last month.
"When she walked through that hospital door when I was in labor, it was like I had just seen her yesterday," Spelling says. "We both started to cry and hug, and I said, `I love you, Mommy,' and she said, `I love you.' That was it. I wish my dad got to see it, but I think he is looking down on us."
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What led to the two-sided silent treatment?
"Nothing really transpired between us," Tori Spelling says. "After reading so many stories, I think we both thought, `Does she hate me? Did I do something?' We were both scared to reach out to each other. Now that we're together, we realize that there is no feud."
Spelling says she's sad that she lost a year with her mother. "There's an empty spot in your heart when family is missing from your life," she says.
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Spelling and her husband, Dean McDermott, star in the reality series "Tori & Dean: Inn Love" on Oxygen Media Corp.'s Oxygen network. The couple are seen opening their own bed and breakfast on the show.