Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Kathy Bates’ mother wasn’t as excited about her daughter's Oscar win as might be expected. In an interview with Ben Mankiewicz on "CBS Sunday Morning," Bates recalled her mother’s response to her best actress win for the 1990 film "Misery.
" "When I won the Oscar for ‘Misery,’ she said, ‘I don’t know what all the excitement [is] about, you didn’t discover the cure for cancer.’" Bates continued, saying she forgot to thank her mother during her speech, but Mankiewicz shared a clip revealing she actually did. KATHY BATES SAYS SHE'S 'LOST 100 POUNDS' AFTER IT BECAME 'HARD FOR ME TO WALK' Kathy Bates shared that her mother told her "I don’t know what all the excitement [is] about, you didn’t discover the cure for cance'" after her Oscar win.
(Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images) The clip brought the actress to tears of relief, explaining, her mother "should have had my life." "When she died, I said come into me. I wanted her spirit to come into me.
Even though we had so many difficulties, I wanted her spirit to come into me and enjoy everything I was enjoying because of what she’d given up." Bates won best actress for "Misery" and thought for years she hadn't thanked her mom in her speech, but "CBS Sunday Morning" revealed she did indeed. (Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images) Earlier in the interview, Bates shared that her parents put off retirement to fund her college tuition.
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