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"Mom doesn&amp;apos;t always know best.\r\nIn Minka Kelly&amp;apos;s case, she often had to be the responsible one growing up. In the October issue of Cosmopolitan magazine (as excerpted by the Daily Mail) Derek Jeter&amp;apos;s 31-year-old ex-girlfriend opens up about the &amp;quot;pretty complicated&amp;quot; relationship she had with her stripper mother, Maureen Kelly prior to her death in 2008.\r\n&amp;quot;She was 5&amp;apos;11&amp;quot;,&amp;quot; the Charlie&amp;apos;s Angels&amp;#xA0;star explains. &amp;quot;Legs up to her ears, gorgeous. She got along on that for as long as she could.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nKelly says her mother would sometimes wake her up in the middle of the night when she got home from working at the strip club. The mother-daughter duo would then go to the supermarket shopping. &amp;quot;That was like our big Friday,&amp;quot; she recalls. &amp;quot;She would want me to skip school [the next morning]&amp;#x2026; I was like &amp;apos;No, Mom, I&amp;apos;ve gotta go to school!&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nKelly&amp;apos;s mother chose to raise her daughter as a single parent. The actress&amp;apos; father, onetime Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay, &amp;quot;wanted to try the family thing,&amp;quot; but Kelly says her mom &amp;quot;was too busy having fun.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;It wasn&amp;apos;t like he didn&amp;apos;t want to be part of our lives,&amp;quot; the Friday Night Lights star adds.\r\nPHOTOS: Minka and other stars who&amp;apos;ve romanced athletes\r\n&amp;quot;I didn&amp;apos;t know how to appreciate what good friends we were,&amp;quot; Kelly admits. &amp;quot;Because I just wanted her to be my mom.&amp;quot;&amp;#xA0;\r\nSadly, three years ago, Kelly&amp;apos;s mother died of colon cancer. &amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s detectable,&amp;quot; Kelly says. &amp;quot;Talk about being reckless and not paying attention to your body.&amp;quot;\r\nFortunately, the two made peace with each other before it was too late. &amp;quot;By the time [my mom] passed I was holding her,&amp;quot; Kelly says. &amp;quot;I was with her until her last breath. We made it.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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