Foreign News-Julia Roberts' mum 'dies aged 80' after battling lung cancer, just a year after half-sister's suicide.
The actress' mother Betty Lou Motes lost her battle with cancer on Thursday morning, according to reports
Julia Roberts and mum |
Julia Roberts' mum Betty Lou Motes has died aged 80 after battling lung cancer, according to reports.
It comes just one year after the actress ' half-sister's suicide.
Tragic Nancy Motes, a former production assistant on the TV show Glee, was found drowned on February 9 by her fiancé John Dilbeck in Los Angeles after a drugs overdose.
Now In Touch Weekly reports there's more heartache for Julia as her mum passed away in the early hours of this morning.
Betty reportedly died at St John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.
According to the site, she had been living with Julia, her husband Daniel Moder and their three children in Los Angeles.
Doctors reportedly found a tumour on Betty's lung during an MRI scan in November 2013, and revealed months later after Nancy's death.
Julia's biological father Walter Grady Roberts died of throat cancer when the star was just 10-years-old. He had been divorced from Betty since January 1972.
She later married Michael Motes who became Julia's stepfather as she was growing up.
We have contacted Julia's reps for comment.
source:mirror.co.uk
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