Bella Thorne opened up with guest co-host Keke Palmer on Monday’s episode of Strahan and Sara about her tumultuous relationship with her mom.

“I wanted acceptance. I wanted appreciation and love for who I was — the way I looked — to everything about myself that I didn’t ever feel like I got,” she said. “I wanted an education, I wanted to feel like I could speak, I wanted a lot of things. But I never spoke up so you can only blame people around you so much before obviously, you start blaming yourself.”

Their relationship is on the mend, however. Bella explained to Keke that the two are closer than ever before.

“We are so much closer now than I think — on a realistic level, you know, me and my mom were best friends growing up,” she said. “So now, I think this is really the closest we’ve ever been in life to understanding one another, for both of us being honest with our opinions.”