When Jodie Foster accepted
her lifetime achievement award and officially came out as a lesbian, she
dedicated a portion of her speech to her aging mother who is suffering from
dementia.
Foster's
mother is the 84-year-old Evelyn
"Brandy" Ella Almond. She was married to Lucius Foster with whom she had Jodie along with three other children: Lucinda Foster, Constance Foster andLucius “Buddy” Foster. Lucius Sr. left Almond and the kids around the time that Foster was born.
While
Foster has frequently sung her mother's praises, her older brother, Buddy, has
not been so kind. In his tell-all book, he writes about Almond being
hot-tempered, violent and a leech to her children's earnings in show business.
Foster was enraged at the claims her brother made, including one that asserts
that they were raised by their lesbian mom and her partner, Aunt Jo. In a rare
statement, Foster responded to her brother’s book. "I feel sad for him.
Mostly, I feel sad for my 69-year-old mother, who has spent her life struggling
to raise four children on her own," she said. "Buddy has done nothing
but break her heart his whole life. That's a kind of sadness no mother will
ever get over."
In
addition to giving her mother credit for encouraging her continued career in
acting, Foster also notably made reference to her mother’s dementia in her speech. "Mom, I know you're
inside those blue eyes somewhere and that there are so many things that you
won't understand tonight." the actress said. "But this is the only
important one to take in: I love you, I love you, I love you. And I hope that
if I say this three times, it will magically and perfectly enter into your
soul, fill you with grace and the joy of knowing that you did good in this
life. You're a great mom. Please take that with you when you're finally OK to
go."
Foster
also mentioned her mother’s fight with the disease back in 2011. “She's really
a new person, not the mom I grew up with, and I have a real nostalgia for who
she was," she told The National.
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