Minka Kelly describes about Relationship with Her Mom

Former "Friday Night Lights" actress Minka Kelly opened up about her "complicated" relationship with her mother and described how she was with her when she passed away."Charlie's Angels" star Minka Kelly is Cosmopolitan's October cover-girl and in the accompanying interview she speaks frankly about her mother, Maureen Kelly.

 In Minka Kelly's case, she often had to be the responsible one growing up. In the October issue of Cosmopolitan magazine (as excerpted by the Daily Mail) Derek Jeter's 31-year-old ex-girlfriend opens up about the "pretty complicated" relationship she had with her stripper mother, Maureen Kelly, prior to her death in 2008.

"She was 5ft 11. Legs up to her ears, gorgeous" described Kelly. "She got along on that for as long as she could."

 Kelly says her mother would sometimes wake her up in the middle of the night when she got home from working at the strip club. The mother-daughter duo would then go to the supermarket shopping. "That was like our big Friday," she recalls. "She would want me to skip school… I was like 'No, Mom, I've gotta go to school!'"

Kelly's mother chose to raise her daughter as a single parent. The actress' father, onetime Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay, "wanted to try the family thing," but Kelly says her mom "was too busy having fun."

"I didn't know how to appreciate what good friends we were," Kelly admits. "Because I just wanted her to be my mom."

 Sadly, three years ago, Kelly's mother died of colon cancer. "That's detectable," Kelly says. "Talk about being reckless and not paying attention to your body" and she also said "By the time she passed, I was holding her. I was with her until her last breath."

Kelly described her mother's death as frustrating because colon cancer is "detectable." She also spoke about the importance of "paying attention to your body."

 As for Kelly's father, former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay, she defended him for not being a part of her life growing up.

 "He wanted to try to do the family thing. It was my mom who was too busy having fun."

 Now the actress, who split from longtime boyfriend Derek Jeter last month, is looking forward to starring in the television re-boot of "Charlie's Angels."