The Importance of a Relationship With Your Mother

"I've really put a lot of effort into being the mom that I felt like I needed and failing," she says. "It never works out the way we think." The pair now speak two or three times a day, including on stage when they need to talk about her daughter's life. 'She just roasted me last night,' LZ Granderson recalls his mother telling him he was stuck on an airport tarmac with no parking ticket.