My Daughter Makes My Purse Shake
"Mrs. Spelling, your purse is making the locker it's in shake and vibrate."
I was being wheeled into yet another elbow surgery, so I was sure I was hallucinating.
"Look, Mrs. Spelling, your daughter is the next guest," a nurse in the pre-op area seemed to say a few seconds later, pointing at a monitor in the hallway.
Ah, that explained why my purse was shaking the locker. Whenever Tori was on TV, I got a flood of phone calls. I wanted more pre-op drugs. My daughter's book had just come out, and I had been barraged with phone calls, emails, letters and strangers in restaurants reporting what she was saying. Now I was imagining that even the hospital medical staff was talking about the book.
"Hi, Candy," my surgeon said. "Just watched Tori. She said you and she have a good and non-confrontational relationship."
"Where's the anesthesiologist?" I asked. "Something is wrong with the anesthetic. It's not working."
I thought I heard someone say something about why Tori thought she could get an inheritance when her mother was still alive. "Kids don't get inheritances until both parents pass, and the mother looks quite healthy," one of the operating room experts declared to another.
More drugs. More drugs.
I saw lights, heard muffled voices, a nurse came over, and someone said the surgery was over. I fell back asleep and was moved to my room.
"Mrs. Spelling, look. Isn't that your daughter on television?" a disembodied voice asked.
Sure enough. I opened my eyes, and there was Tori on another talk show.
"My mother is a great grandmother," I think she said. "Our relationship is fine."
I knew that. I had just seen my grandson, and we were already becoming great buddies. I was excited that Tori is pregnant again, and I'd be a grandmother of two soon.
"Mrs. Spelling, would you like some water?"
"Yes, please."
"Here. You were in surgery for a while, so I'm not sure if you know your daughter was on TV this morning. She has a new book, and she showed pictures of birthday parties you and your husband gave for her."
"Uh, huh. May I have more water, please?"
I learned another lesson today. Even surgery doesn't shield mothers of famous children from their escapades. I wonder how isolated wilderness camps really are. I could probably still answer questions on my website, as I've been doing since the book came out, if the wilderness wasn't too isolated. I'll have to ask my doctor when I can travel.
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Okay. I clicked. What a bunch of BS. And yes, kids of wealthy parents usually get inheritance when one parent dies if not before because everyone is so anxious to avoid gift and estate taxes. What a miserable wretch.
Sounds like pseudocertainty to me. Kids of wealthy parents don't usually inherit on the death of the first (natural) parent, and even if they did, it wouldn't save the estate or the surviving parent a dime in estate taxes and would create a sizeable 45% gift tax liability, so I don't know where you're getting your information.
Dear Candy,
You've raised a daughter who appears to be very loving, generous and creative. She seems to be a doting wife and mother. She is charmingly self-depricating and hilariously inventive. She is someone I would be PROUD to call my daughter, and thankful to have in my life.
Sorry you feel the need to zone out just because she's written about HER life.
I cannot believe you! You seem to be sooo selfish! I would be so proud to have a daughter like Tori! And if she wanted or needed anything she'd have it! Money never comes before family. If I could I'd give my son the moon!
Tori seems to have survived living in that bizarre monument to Candys' ego, and have come out of it with her sense of humor intact. Good for her. And to NOT have done a 'Mommie Dearest', when she obviously had good reason to, speaks volumes for her character. I loved the self deprecating humor of her recent t.v. series 'So NoTORIous'. This girl has her fathers inventiveness and is a survivor.
As for her surgery riddled, self-important mother, give us a break and please refrain from running her non-sensical 'look at me' stories again.
BooHooHoo! Sorry about your "Elbow Surgery", but come on. Your daughter did something you could never do.Stood on her own(albeit with $800thousand of dad's money) and created her own life.Candy go back to the gift wrapping room and rest.
The reason she has so little money is pretty evident if you follow the picture trail. All that cosmetic surgery isn't cheap folks.
My sister gave her daughters diaries and pens for presents. She told them it would either give them a leg up and save time and money on the therapy they would need for having her as a mother, or they would write great books about her and appear on Oprah:)
You need a big ass sense of humor to raise kids.
And can I just ask, WTF are these people doing watching tee vee instead of taking care of Mrs. Spelling?
No REAL mothers -- (or fathers) -- should want to take advice from A 'sour' CANDY. She doesn't know the meaning of sacrifice, and never will.
Tori, would've gotten more love from a dish towel.
Candy:
Every new mom needs their mom - it's not just for your millions. It's for security.
I am pretty shocked that your beloved, brilliant husband didn't look out for his children more then he did.
It seems a little selfish - and if my children made it with a book deal, and had beautiful off spring I'd rejoice.
Someday they will 'get' appreciating a parent more then holding out their hand for a buck...
love them- and be thankful you and your husband created a star your child could be a nobody and they would be asking you if you wanted water, and how sad it was your alone.
I don't understand this, NOBODY would expect an inheritence before their parents are dead. It would never occure to me if one of my parents passed away to say to the other "Oh hey, when are you going to be moving out, your children would like to sell the house and drain your accounts". Her father had cut her off....poo
"Even surgery doesn't shield mothers of famous children from their escapades.
I actually saw her on a few shows and she was extremely complimentary towards her family so as her mother, I would think you would have felt pride rather than a need to escape from her. She's funny, self-effacing and happy if what she's portraying on the talk shows is to be believed..
She really had a lot of strikes against her. When she was acting, she was ridiculed as only having her job because of who she was. There was a lot of hatred and negativity directed against her. She appears to have overcome that beautifully by being herself and following her own path. Not everyone in her peer group was as successful as she has been at finding happiness.
Is this all that fame and fortune has to offer?
Why would anyone want it when all they have to do is look at the results of people to shallow to understand they have turned into a puddle?
If I had a daughter I would give her the world.
You are so wealthy. As a Mother you need to give love first to get love as a mother! It starts with you Candy!
You have a terrific sense of humor about things. May it see you through your ups and downs with Tori. And you are blessed to have your grandchild and one on the way. My parents were sad to not have grandchildren, as was I not to have children. (Grandcats didn't seem to make it up to them, alas!)
(Hope the surgery helps your elbow. And hope those drugs appeared!)
Give both your kids a fair share of their father's estate and maybe you won't have such a horrible relationship. Geez - is money more important than your kids????
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