On the eve of the release of Tori Spelling’s second book, Mommywood, the Hollywood socialite’s estranged mother has received out to her an emotional open letter.

In the public plea posted on her Official Website, Candy Spelling writes: “You haven’t responded to my emails, phone calls and text messages. You say you look at my Web site, so I’m trying to reach you that way. I want to see you and your family — in private, like the ‘normal family’ you say always wanted.”

“With your book coming out tomorrow, the war of words will escalate. That’s not what I want. I want us to be a family.”

During the promo tour for her recently released memoir, Stories From Candyland, the 63-year-old wife of late television producer Aaron Spelling confessed that her long-troubled relationship with her 35-year-old daughter is still strained, even accusing Tori of cutting her off from seeing her two children, Liam, 2, and Stella, 10 months.

On Monday, Tori issued a statement denying that reports that she is feuding with her mother. Instead, the star of Oxygen’s Tori & Dean: Still Inn Love simply says she and her mother have “never meshed” and therefore do not socialize.

Candy says she’s hoping to change all that.

“My fax machine was burning up over the weekend with well-meaning people sending me excerpts of your new book. You write that you don’t want to feel like you kept me apart from your children. You write: I would love to have a relationship with her… But I haven’t stepped up to make that happen.”

“Well, I’m stepping up. Call me, write me, text me.”

“I’m a mother who, like every mother, wants communication and a great relationship with you, my daughter, and your family,” writes Candy. “I’d love to work it out the way all families try to resolve issues. In private. But, as I wrote in a my book, I was a celebrity by marriage, then a celebrity by motherhood. That means that my life is public. I’m used to it. It comes with the territory.”

In conclusion, Candy writes: “What makes it so difficult is to hear you say things like: I’d like to call my mother, or I love my mother but don’t speak to her, or I think she has my nanny’s phone number. I don’t want a reunion via talk show or to speak through the press. I want a relationship with you and my grandchildren.”

I am hopeful. Love, Mom

We hope they can work this thing out. When it’s all said and done, all you’ve got is family. Do it for the kids, guys!