Kathy Bates gets emotional after learning she actually did thank her mother after winning her Oscar: “She should’ve had my life.”

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The actress and her mother had a difficult relationship and when she won the big prize, she remembers her mother being rather blasé about it.

“She said, ‘I don’t know what all the excitement is about, you didn’t discover the cure for cancer,” Bates tells Mankiewicz, adding, “I forgot to thank her that night.”

Mankiewicz then informs the Matlock star that she did, indeed, thank her mother, but Bates is adamant that she didn’t. Until he shows her a clip of her acceptance speech.

“I’d like to thank my family, my friends,” Bates begins in the clip, “my mom at home, my dad, who I hope is watching somewhere…”

When she sees that she thanked her mother, Bates’ face immediately drops and she puts her hands to her mouth in disbelief.

“Thank you! Why did I think I didn’t thank her,” an emotional Bates says. “Oh, what a relief.”