Bella Thorne Opens Up About Her Strained Relationship With Her Mom, Tamara

It was just last week that Bella Thorne shared a poem she wrote for her mom, Tamara, from her new book, “The Life of a Wannabe Mogul: Mental Disarray”.

Now, the 21-year-old actress and author is opening up more about the strained relationship they have.

During her interview with Keke Palmer on Strahan & Sara, which aired today, Bella says that she wanted more structure and direction from her mother growing up.

“I wanted acceptance. I wanted appreciation and love for who I was, the way I looked, to everything about myself that I didn’t ever feel like I got…I wanted an education, I wanted to feel like I could speak, I wanted a lot of things. But I never spoke up so you can only blame people around you so much before obviously you start blaming yourself.”

Bella also explained that she’s struggled with her personal well-being as a result of childhood stardom.

“If you spend your whole life, you’ve been raised to only please people, then how to you know, why do you think, ‘oh these child stars are going crazy,’” Bella says. “But they finally get to please themselves for once or ask themselves what does please me? Because I don’t even know at this point.”