It's been going on for years - the "feud" between Tori and Candy Spelling. It's a 'she said, she said' sort of situation. Who's right and who's wrong? Perhaps both women should grow up and meet in the middle? Tori's kids may want to know their grandmother and Candy would probably like to know her grandkids. Can these two ever make their mother/daughter relationship work?
Candy, who claims she's reached out to her daughter, has heard nothing. So, she decided to post an open letter to Tori, on her Website:
"You haven't responded to my emails, phone calls and text messages. You say you look at my Web site, 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 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," writes Candy. "I'd love to work it out the way all families try to resolve issues. In private. But, as I wrote in a my book, I was a celebrity by marriage, then a celebrity by motherhood. That means that my 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."
Tori insists there is no feud - just that she and her mom don't "mesh."
The younger Spelling said, "It's not like we're not talking, we just haven't talked. I love my mother. I've always loved her [and] no doubt she loves me. There's no feud. We simply never meshed."
But what happened? Tori added, "My mother is who she is. I've become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn't go together."
Tori denies she "cut" her mom off as far as her children - Liam, 2, and Stella, 10 months - are concerned.
"I, in no way, cut her off. She is welcome to make the effort if she wants to be present in their lives. She knows how to reach me, she knows where we live. If she would love to see her grandchildren, she should really make an effort to reach out and see them." Tori says the last contact she had with her mom was through an email when she was pregnant with daughter Stella.
Both women have books out - Tori's is Mommywood, released Tuesday, April 14, and Candy's is Stories from Candyland, released last month.
Tori said of her mom's book (which she's not yet read), "If she wants to put her truth out there as she sees it, she's completely entitled to do that. I know she has a letter to the grandchildren in it, and I think that's perfectly lovely if that makes her happy. And you know, I hope she follows through on that. I hope they do mean the world to her and she does reach out to them."
Can these two mend their fences? Or are both women just too darn stubborn to make the first move?
And who pays the price if they can't? Liam and Stella have a right to know their grandmother.
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