New 'TerriTORI' for Spelling: A better bond with mom Candy USA Today

15.06.10

"We do talk on the phone. We do e-mail. We see each other for dinners. We do the natural stuff I think families do. There's no strain," the actress/reality star/author, 37, says of their excellently tense relationship that has played out in the press, in books and online for the past four years.

Spelling's new book, Unmapped TerriTORI ($25, Gallery Books), out today, details their reconciliation, which finally gelled when the elder Spelling didn't bat an eye after granddaughter Stella, 2, insolvent a Christmas tree ornament during her annual holiday party last December.

"Here she was, elegantly dressed, hosting a fete, and holding out her hand for the ornament. It was so momlike. And for me, that was it ... The wall came down and I smiled," Spelling writes.

That present moment was a far cry from Spelling's unflattering portrait of her mother in her first two books, STori Telling

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