Life has not always been peachy for the beautiful Minka Kelly, most famous for her roles in Friday Night Lights and the upcoming TV reboot of Charlie’s Angels.
Minka, Derek Jeter‘s 31-year-old ex-girlfriend, opens up in the October issue of Cosmopolitan magazine about the “pretty complicated” mother-daughter relationship she went through with her stripper mother, Maureen Kelly, prior to Maureen’s death in 2008.
Maureen was a single mom and Minka’s father, onetime Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay, wasn’t around much in Minka’s life. He “wanted to try the family thing,” but Minka says her mother “was too busy having fun.” She laments, “It wasn’t like he didn’t want to be part of our lives.”
Sadly, Minka’s mother died of colon cancer three years ago. “That’s detectable,” Kelly says. “Talk about being reckless and not paying attention to your body.”
Thankfully, the duo ended things on good terms before it was too late. “By the time [my mom] passed I was holding her,” Kelly says. “I was with her until her last breath. We made it.”