Spellings At War

“You killed your daddy!”
or: how NOT to reconcile with one’s daughter
It isn’t news that Tori and Candy Spelling have been publicly bickering and privately ignoring one another for some time now.
First it was Candy not approving of Tori leaving first husband Charlie Shanian for Dean McDermott, then it was Candy throwing Tori a pittance of inheritance cash when family patriarch Aaron died, then it was Candy not visiting her grandson Liam, and then Tori neglecting to invite Candy to meet her daughter Stella when she was born.

Tori and hubby Dean: mother doesn't approve

While Candy insists she wants to make up with her daughter, and Tori stopped short of bad mouthing her mother and instead said she would like her to be a part of her grandchildren’s lives, today’s events would indicate that a family reunion will never, ever, ever happen.
It might have something to do with Candy announcing on US radio that Tori KILLED her father, TV producer legend Aaron.
“My daughter one day decided that she wasn't speaking to my husband, myself and my son, and that's how it's continued for the last, oh gosh, four or five years,” Candy blabbed on Springfield, Massachusetts radio station 94.7 WMAS.
“And it was sad, that's what killed my husband, actually. He just didn't want to live after that. He’d just done everything he could possibly do for his daughter, and she wanted no part of him once he couldn't do anything for her.”
This woman should be a diplomat or something. Or at very least Mother Of The Year!
Despite having all but called her daughter a murderer – for the record Aaron died following a stroke in 2006 aged 83 – Candy went on to say: “I've always been trying to work on the relationship. I don’t know what the anger is.”
SORRY?
The elephant in the room, and it’s a rather big elephant, is that during her husband’s last years Candy was “allegedly” having an affair with a house boy family friend named Mark Nathanson and Tori stopped talking to her in disgust.
While the affair has been widely reported in tabloids, Tori has only touched on the subject.
“I feel that at this point it’s all out there and it’s the truth. So what can they say now?” she writes in her book sTORI Telling. “That’s her truth to tell. I did resent it, but she was there for my dad. I did resent Mark’s relationship with our family. He’s no longer in our lives, including our mother’s.”
So by Candy’s logic Tori not talking to the family sent Aaron over the edge, but her banging one of his friends while he was at home in bed under medical supervision was just fine and dandy?
LOGIC FAIL!
Now I obviously don’t know either woman, so any character assessment I make is based purely on how they appear in the media. But for mine Tori seems eccentric but sweet and well-meaning, and Candy seems like a BATSHIT CRAZY BITCH.
Tori, whatever you have to say on the subject now, I can’t wait to hear it.

Scott Keenan
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