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Kellie Pickler, 'Mother's Day' Is Singer's Gift of Closure (VIDEO)

Gino DePinto, The Boot

When Kellie Pickler talks about her new song, "Mother's Day," she's rather stoic, insisting that she did not write the tune as a message to her estranged mother who abandoned her when she was a little girl. However, when the country star sings the somber song, she lets her emotions flow. (Watch her perform "Mother's Day" in the video player below.)

"I didn't really want anyone to hear it," Kellie tells The Boot. "I didn't write that song for anyone but me. I didn't write it for my mother. It's OK to do things for yourself every now and then. It's OK to put yourself first, there's nothing wrong with doing that."

Kellie co-wrote "Mother's Day" on Mother's Day 2010, with then-boyfriend Kyle Jacobs, who is now her husband. "It's really wild to look back and think ... when you get to the second verse and it talks about possibly someday having a daughter of my own and having a love that I've never known," Kellie reflects. "It's so special to know that I wrote those lines with my now husband."

The North Carolina native insists "Mother's Day" wasn't originally meant to be included on her new album, 100 Proof. But when she played the demo of the song for some close songwriter friends, they encouraged her to share it with fans.

"When I sit down and write a song, my motives are never to write a song for my new album," Kellie explains. "When I sit down and write a song, my number one goal is to find closure in whatever it is I'm going through, good or bad. 'Mother's Day' gave me so much closure.

"I know that there are a lot of other people out there going through similar circumstances, and they might need help finding closure in their lives, too," she continues. "Maybe 'Mother's Day' would help them, and it was put on the record for that reason."

Mother's Day is this Sunday (May 13), which will no doubt be a hard day for the singer-songwriter. "You cannot get away from that day -- it's on billboards, in malls and restaurants, on the radio," she laments. "But I hope people can connect with the song and that it helps them the same way it helped me. That's what music is for."

Watch Kellie's emotional performance of "Mother's Day" live in our studios below.

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jglalone

I am sorry you have this burden. Don't feel bad about the scar that is on your heart. Some relationships are so important to us, there is no way of minimizing it.
I can't imagine, never could, how a mother could leave her child. I suppose there may be cases in which it is the supreme sacrifice.
Then again, there are some people who just cannot bond.
I cry every Mother's Day, and most other days. It is the worst day of the year since my daughter walked out of my life 10 years ago, and she has never looked back. I don't know why she did this and not understanding makes it all the harder.
I would guess by now she must have created quite a myth about me in order to sustain the estrangement, and rationalize doing it.
I loved my mother dearly, despite her shortcomings. I knew she would love me forever, and that counts for a lot.
For my daughter, apparently it didn't mean much that I would love her for all of my life, that I would accept her, cheer her on, be there for her in her happy times and the sad times.
Some pain we just have to live with, for there is no cure, and little to ease it's intensity.
Bless you. May you have much happiness. May your husband and future children heal your heart.
Thank you for sharing your song.

May 13 2012 at 9:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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May 13 2012 at 9:14 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
aleighcat

Kellie, I'm sure that you were traumatized by the whole thing, and (truly) I am sorry that you had to go through that, but get some therapy and move on already. The "woe is me" victim story is getting a little old. Your mother abandoned you to your father and grandparents, I know that it is still painful for you, but you have to get past it and move forward in your life...no looking in the rearview mirror. She left, her loss. We don't need to hear about it all of the time.

May 13 2012 at 8:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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barbara

HOW LONG AGO DID YOUR MOTHER ABANDON YOU?

May 13 2012 at 8:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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aleighcat

barbara, my husband's father abandoned the whole family just out of the blue one day. Come to find out, he'd been cheating on his wife 38 of the 40 years of marriage. He refuses to accept calls from anyone......including his two children, who did absolutely *nothing* to him. I know that it still bothers/hurts my husband, but he doesn't continually harp on it. He went to therapy to learn to deal with it, realizes it wasn't anything that he did wrong, and has since moved forward. I am quite aware that both he and this girl are extremely hurt/traumatized, but in Kellie's case, she needs to keep it private since coming forward with it. Everything she does somehow always reflects back to how she was abandoned. The martyr/victim sob story is just getting a little tiresome. I said that I *was* sorry that she had to go through it, I'm not completely unsympathetic........just tired of hearing about it. As I said, she needs therapy....or needs to continue with any she's had, and needs to move forward now.

May 13 2012 at 9:32 PM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down
devinmcmusters

Get over it Kellie. And stop having plastic surgeries. You look ridiculous.

May 14 2012 at 1:05 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
cynthia

my daughter is so beautiful, smart and so hard to please

May 13 2012 at 11:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
cynthia

Kellie
I left a very difficult situation that involved two children....I will never be forgiven by them for the years we were apart...... It makes mothers day very hard for me as they do not want a relationship with me now....I thought they would suffer less by being with their dad and grandmother than being torn apart by such a difficult battle to see them that I allowed the separation.....what a big mistake I will never live down....I have met my daughter and I am not good enough to have a relationship with her......I lost her 3 times now....the pain is sooooo much....no one can understand how I "as a mother who left" to protect them, and I thought they would honestly be better without me", now that I can be there they don't want me...

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May 13 2012 at 11:17 AM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
Hello Valerie

Kellie its your so called mom's fault baby NOT yours

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