Overview

• After unanswered calls, texts, cards and an unannounced door visit, Tomlin spoke to OK! magazine to ask her daughter for forgiveness
• The pair briefly reunited last October when Tomlin and her husband visited Martine’s new home to help with painting but found the atmosphere too heavy to heal the rift
• Following the 2022 death of her son LJ, Tomlin was assessed by a mental health team and prescribed anti-anxiety medication after suffering a grief-driven withdrawal
• LJ, 31, died of acute ischaemic heart disease and diabetes, and Tomlin is now writing a memoir about him as she seeks to rebuild family bonds
• Tomlin has not seen her 10-year-old grandson Rafferty since the estrangement began and describes the loss of contact with him as “another death”