Kathy Bates' mother had surprising reaction to her Oscar win: ‘You didn’t discover the cure for cancer’

Kathy Bates’ parent wasn’t arsenic excited astir her daughter's Oscar triumph arsenic mightiness beryllium expected.

In an interrogation with Ben Mankiewicz connected "CBS Sunday Morning," Bates recalled her mother’s effect to her champion histrion triumph for the 1990 movie "Misery."

"When I won the Oscar for ‘Misery,’ she said, ‘I don’t cognize what each the excitement [is] about, you didn’t observe the cure for cancer.’"

Bates continued, saying she forgot to convey her parent during her speech, but Mankiewicz shared a clip revealing she really did.

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Kathy Bates shared that her parent told her "I don’t cognize what each the excitement [is] about, you didn’t observe the cure for cance'" aft her Oscar win. (Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

The clip brought the histrion to tears of relief, explaining, her parent "should person had my life."

"When she died, I said travel into me. I wanted her tone to travel into me. Even though we had truthful galore difficulties, I wanted her tone to travel into maine and bask everything I was enjoying due to the fact that of what she’d fixed up."

Bates won champion histrion for "Misery" and thought for years she hadn't thanked her ma successful her speech, but "CBS Sunday Morning" revealed she did indeed. (Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images)

Earlier successful the interview, Bates shared that her parents put disconnected status to money her assemblage tuition.

"My begetter virtually had a bosom onslaught aft 2 oregon 3 years of giving up… helium had to walk a luck we didn’t person to nonstop maine to Southern Methodist University, and went to enactment erstwhile helium was successful his 70s. They gave up truthful much."

"When I won the Oscar for ‘Misery,’ she said, ‘I don’t cognize what each the excitement [is] about, you didn’t observe the cure for cancer.’"

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Bates told The New York Times past period she was considering her ain status aft her caller series, "Matlock," yet ends.

"Everything I’ve prayed for, worked for, clawed my mode up for, I americium abruptly capable to beryllium asked to usage each of it. And it’s exhausting," she told the outlet, adding, "This is my past dance."

In her "CBS Sunday Morning" interview, she revealed she had a atrocious acquisition connected an undisclosed movie task that made her question moving successful Hollywood.

Bates antecedently said she was acceptable to discontinue erstwhile she's finished filming "Matlock" reboot. (Brooke Palmer/CBS)

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"I deliberation erstwhile you consciousness that benignant of betrayal, it truly devastates," she said.

But aft landing the relation connected "Matlock," which she called "one of the astir fantastic roles I’ve ever had to play," she rethought her stance.

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"Not retiring. And I’d emotion to enactment with the amusement arsenic agelong arsenic it runs, and I anticipation it runs a precise agelong time," Bates said.