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

“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. 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.

“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.”