“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 recalled.
She also said she forgot to thank her mom during her acceptance speech, but Mankiewicz disputed that and showed her a video of her remarks in which she did, in fact, acknowledge her mother.
Bates was shocked and became visually emotional.
“Why did I think I didn’t thank her?”The elder Bates died in 1997 and her daughter said her mother “should have had my life.”“When she died, I said come into me.
I wanted her spirit to come into me,” Bates said.
Persons:
Kathy Bates, Oscar, “, ” Bates, Ben Mankiewicz, ’, ‘, ’ ” Bates, Mankiewicz, Bates, ”
Organizations:
CNN, “ CBS
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