Refreshed from a recent trip to the Four Season’s Puta Mita Resort in Mexico, Tori Spelling, accompanied by hubby Dean McDermott, opened up to OK! about her delicate relationship with estranged mother Candy Spelling in an exclusive interview.

“I definitely want to reconcile with my mother, but that’s the wrong word,” Tori confessed to OK!. “There’s nothing that really happened that made us fight. It’s just time, distance and media that have come between my mom and me.”

Speaking to OK! at the grand opening of A Hollywood Spectacle earlier this week, Tori explained, “I just think that as long as we both keep it private from here on out, reconciliation is imminent. It will totally happen and I hope that she wants that.”

Candy claimed to have e-mailed prior to missing Stella’s first birthday party, but Tori was almost brought to tears as she discussed how she holds out hope for her mom to come around for her own children.

“I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I’m still a momma’s girl at the heart of the situation,” Tori dished to OK!. “I look forward to the relationship that Liam and Stella will have with their grandmother one day and I’m confident that it will happen.”

And if Candy calling her daughter a “middle-aged woman” was meant as a put-down, Tori doesn’t seem to be taking the comment too seriously. “When you’re in your twenties, you can still wear things like this and then I become a mother of two and wear these six-inch Fendi heels and I’m falling all over the place,” she joked to OK!.

All kidding aside, husband Dean spoke candidly about his own relationship with his now-deceased father and how he can relate to his wife’s heartbreaking situation.

“I know the hurt because I have gone through it,” Dean revealed. “I know what it’s like to hold out hope and for it to not pan out and to get your feelings hurt again and again. After a while, at the end of the day, you really have to protect yourself and see that it’s not healthy for us… Your family can cause you a lot of pain and heartache.”

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Seems Candy Spelling is ready to make nice with her estranged daughter Tori.

“I love you, and I always will,” she tells her in a new interview with USA Today.

Candy’s remark comes a week after she penned a scathing note to Tori, 36, on her website, slamming her for treating her children, Liam, 2, and Stella, 1, as “reality show props.”

She said she was just angry at the negative way she was portrayed on Tori’s Oxygen reality show Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, which Candy, 63, called “scripted.”

On the show, Tori laments that her mom was a no-show at Stella’s birthday party. “I’m mad that I actually got sucked back into holding out hope once again after 36 years,” she cries. (Candy has maintained that she didn’t want her reunion with her daughter to be filmed.)

Candy said she and Tori don’t speak because “my daughter doesn’t like the telephone. She doesn’t answer. I text her. I have left messages. I’ve e-mailed her, and she doesn’t respond.”

So when putting together her recent book Stories From Candyland — which featured stories written by friends and son Randy — she didn’t even bother asking Tori for a submission.

“It just didn’t seem comfortable to ask her,” Candy said. “I had written her so many times and really never received any kind of response.”

In the book, she wrote a letter to her grandchildren because she “wanted them to know some of how their mother grew up, and some of our wonderful memories.”

“I don’t really know what she tells her children about me, and it was important for me to say something positive to them that someday they may read,” she said. “I’m hoping that someday they see a different side than what they may have been told.”

So could Candy and Tori ever reconcile one day?

“It could be years of disappointment. Maybe someday she’ll get it,” Candy tells USA Today. “She’s my daughter. I may not approve of everything she does, but I love her.”

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Troubled actress Mischa Barton is “doing well” after she was released from a Los Angeles hospital over the weekend.

The former The O.C. star was allegedly placed on involuntary psychiatric hold on July 16, after suffering a meltdown and calling cops to her Hollywood home.

The extent of Barton’s health crisis remains a mystery, with her representative, Craig Schneider, simply confirming she had sought treatment for a “medical issue”.

But Schneider has revealed to RadarOnline.com that Barton is now out of hospital and is preparing to return to work when filming on her new TV show The Beautiful Life begins.

The spokesman adds, “That’s the intention, (but) it hasn’t been in production yet.”

Shooting on the program, created by Ashton Kutcher, was initially reported to have been delayed by Barton’s hospitalisation, but network chiefs at The CW insist the hold-up was the result of unfinished sets.

Barton, 23, is set to play Sonja Stone, a catwalk beauty addicted to pills, on The Beautiful Life, which is tentatively scheduled to start filming on July 31.

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Did you read Candy Spelling’s letter to Tori this morning? I still can’t get over it!

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When you think your mom is too much to handle, just be thankful you don’t have Candy Spelling as a mother!

Candy Spelling has never met her granddaughter, Stella.  She was invited to celebrate Stella’s first birthday, but apparently refused to attend – because the event was being filmed by Oxygen for Tori & Dean’s TV Show. Candy has chosen TMZ as a way of communicating with her daughter – and it’s terrible!! Here’s the latest open letter Candy sent to TMZ:

EXCLUSIVE TO: TMZ.COM
TO: MIDDLE-AGED REALITY SHOW STARS (LIKE MY DAUGHTER)
FROM: CANDY SPELLING

I Know many middle-aged people have issues about their parents and their upbringing. I did. My memories didn’t match all those of my mother, and, funny thing, it’s the same way with my daughter.

Life has consequences. What you say is on the record. Other people have feelings.

have a vested interest in this subject. My daughter, Tori’s, two-part season finale revolves around my granddaughter’s first birthday party and how she has made what seems like an agonizing decision to invite me.

Cue music. Cue sideways glances. Cue Lights.

I did get an invitation just in time for the RSVP deadline. I’m sure its delivery will be on next week’s episode with some comment about my house or driveway or street or something they won’t like. I wonder if that will be spread out over one part or two. Sigh.

A big party wasn’t how I envisioned meeting my granddaughter for the first time; but, hey, this is Hollywood, and my grandchildren have become reality show props, too. At the time I emailed “yes,” I didn’t realize I was being set up for a two-parter, even though it was clear I was being invited to be part of a segment for my daughter’s reality show.

Spoiler alert. Don’t read this if you plan to sit through an hour of people looking at their watches and saying “she’s late.” I decided my first meeting with my granddaughter should be on home video, not primetime cable; so I emailed that I would not be attending.

Back to other reality stars. My husband taught me that the plots have to be fresh and updated. The same old whining gets tired after a while. Enough complaining about what may or may not have happened during first grade or YMCA camp, or what vegetable you were forced to endure, especially when you are privileged enough to be on TV and get paid for it.

For all the reality show personalities, please remember that real life doesn’t get edited to make things better or worse or get better ratings. You’re responsible for what you do. Life isn’t just a show. And your families can’t just be props. Make your own season finale without creating conflicts you will regret later.

OUCH!!

Bauer Griffin