Kirstie Alley REFUSED to meet woman who killed her mother in car crash

REVEALED: Kirstie Alley REFUSED to meet drunk driver who killed her mom and seriously injured her dad in 1981 car crash – three years before she died after short battle with colon cancer

• Kirstie Alley refused to meet with the drunk driver who killed her mother and seriously injured her father in a 1981 car crash
• Cherrie White had tried to reach out to the Cheers star in 2019 to beg for forgiveness, but Alley refused to meet with her
• White has said she was just 27-years-old and going through a bitter divorce when she crashed into a car being driven by Robert Alley and Lillian Maxine Alley
• Lillian, nicknamed ‘Mickie,’ went flying and was pronounced dead at the scene, while Robert suffered critical injuries to his chest
• White pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge and was sentenced to one year in prison plus time in rehab, but was let off early 

Kirstie Alley refused to meet with the drunk driver who killed her mother and seriously injured her father in a 1981 car crash.

Cherrie White, now living in Arlington, Texas, had tried to reach out to the Cheers star in 2019 to beg for forgiveness, but Alley refused to meet with her, RadarOnline revealed.

She had tweeted just two years prior that she had ‘no sympathy’ for people that drive while drunk following her mother’s brutal death at the age of 58 when she was just 30 years old and beginning her acting career.

The famed actress succumbed to colon cancer on Monday, passing away at her home in Clearwater, Florida at the age of 71.

She is now set to be cremated, with a memorial service planned at the Flag Building, often referred to as the Super Power Building, the Church of Scientology’s main headquarters in the city.

Kirstie Alley refused to meet with the drunk driver who killed her mother and badly injured her father in the years before her death 

Lillian Maxine Alley, nicknamed ‘Mickie,’ was thrown from her car while Robert Alley suffered critical chest injuries following the October 1981 crash, but fortunately survived

Cherrie White, now living in Arlington, Texas, had tried to reach out to the Cheers star in 2019 to beg for forgiveness for the fatal crash when she was 27-years-old

Alley had just moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and was preparing for her final audition for the role of Lt. Saavik in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan when she received a phone call from her sister, Colette, that their parents were in a fatal crash.

That is how she learned her mother, Lillian Maxine Alley, nicknamed ‘Mickie,’ was thrown from their vehicle and her father, Robert Alley, was in critical condition with chest injuries after White — then known as Cherie Glymph — crashed into their car.

Colette told her: ‘Mom is dead and dad is dying. You need to come home,’ Alley wrote in her 2005 memoir, How to Lose Your A** and Regain Your Life: Reluctant Confessions of a Big-butted Star. 

Cherrie was just 27-years-old at the time and was working at the Boeing aircraft plant in Alley’s hometown of Wichita, Kansas amid a messy divorce.

She has said she decided to go for a few drinks on her way home from work the night of October 23, 1981, when she swerved into the Alley’s car along I-135.

The happily-married couple were on their way back from a Halloween party at the time, Alley later revealed, with her mother still wearing her costume.

‘I wish sometimes that the woman that killed my mother that night… had known about my mother’s costume, because maybe she, too, would know that my mother was a pretty funny person,’ Alley wrote in her memoir.

According to court records, Cherrie pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of vehicular homicide and was sentenced to one year in county jail and rehab, but Alley tweeted last year that she only spent three months behind bars before being released.

Cherrie then tried reaching out to Kirstie in 2019, but the now famous actress had refused to meet with her.

‘I can understand why Kirstie doesn’t want to talk to me,’ Cherrie, who has since retired and is now living in Arlington, Texas told the National Enquirer at the time.

‘But if she changed her mind, I would tell Kirstie and her father how truly sorry I am for what happened that night and the pain that I caused them.’ 

Alley tweeted in 2017 that she has ‘no sympathy’ for people who drive drunk

White pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year in prison plus time in rehab, but was released from jail after only three months, Alley said in 2021

Cherrie, now a grandmother and mother of three, had earlier opened up about the devastating crash in 2011, admitting to the Enquirer: ‘I shouldn’t have been driving that night. I had a lot of things on my mind and I was intoxicated.

‘I was going through a divorce,’ she explained to Alan Butterfield, now a Daily Mail reporter. ‘I stopped by a local club to get something to eat and I had a few drinks.’

She said both she and Robert Alley were trying to avoid an accident involving other cars when they collided.

‘I was told later that the other car spun out and rolled over several times, ejecting the female passenger,’ she said, noting she ‘blacked out.’

‘When I came to, I saw a woman’s body on the side of the road covered in a sheet,’ Cherrie recounted. ‘Then I saw paramedics working on the man.

‘I was told later that the female passenger had died and the male driver was taken to the hospital in critical condition,’ she continued. ‘But I never knew the name of  the woman I killed. The authorities never told me the victims’ names because the driver was still in the hospital and they couldn’t release his name.

‘For 30 years, I’ve carried the burden of not knowing who I killed,’ she said. 

She later wrote a letter to the anonymous survivor of the crash, Robert, as part of her rehab — but never sent it. 

Alley had to race back to her hometown of Wichita, Kansas to attend her mother’s funeral — and had to reschedule her audition for Lt. Saavik in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan to attend the service

Kirstie, meanwhile, had had a contentious relationship with her mother in the years before the fatal crash, the actress admitted years later.

She was the middle child of Lillian and Robert, sandwiched between her older sister Colette and her younger brother Craig.

Colette was described as a model student who went on to become a biology teacher, while Craig followed in their father’s footsteps in the lumber business.

But Kirstie said she never fit the mold of what her parents had expected, describing herself as a difficult child in the years before she decided to move to Los Angeles.

In the weeks before her mother’s passing, the Enquirer reported, she wrote a letter to her mother apologizing for being a difficult child growing up.

The budding actress finally received her mother’s response just one day before her untimely death — a note in which Lillian told her daughter how much she loved her.

Kirstie has since spoken about how much she admired her mother, writing in her memoir: ‘One thing my mother was not short on was humor and wit.’

The actress showed off that humor and wit in a 2018 tweet showing her mother sporting short shorts while striking a pose. 

‘Remembering my mother… wishing I inherited her gams,’ she wrote at the time. 

Alley remembered her mother for her sense of humor and wit, sharing this photo of her mother in short shorts in a 2018 tweet

Alley had described herself as a difficult and rebellious child, apologizing to her mother for her behavior just weeks before her death

The crash came as Kirstie was first beginning her career in Hollywood, forcing the future star to have to reschedule her final audition for Star Trek.

Fortunately, the producers allowed her to do her final reading for the role of Lt. Saavik when she returned from her mother’s funeral.

The audition proved fruitful, providing Kirstie with her breakout role years before she became a household name as Rebecca Howe in Cheers, replacing the outgoing Shelley Long.

She joined the show at the height of its popularity after the departure of Long.

Alley would win an Emmy for best lead actress in a comedy series for the role in 1991.

‘I only thank God I didn´t have to wait as long as Ted,’ Alley said in her acceptance, gently ribbing her ‘Cheers’ co-star Ted Danson, who had finally won an Emmy for his role as Sam Malone in his eighth nomination the previous year.

She would take a second Emmy for best lead actress in a miniseries or television movie in 1993 for playing the title role in the CBS TV movie David’s Mother.

Alley then went on to appear in various films throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including the Look Who’s Talking film series, Summer School (1987) Sibling Rivalry (1990),It Takes Two (1995), For Richer or Poorer (1997), and Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999).

She won another Emmy Award in 1994 for the television film David’s Mother and received a further Emmy nomination in 1997 for her work in the crime drama series The Last Don.

Alley also had her own sitcom, Veronica’s Closet, from 1997 to 2000 but it was the 1989 comedy Look Who’s Talking, which gave her a major career boost, as she played the mother of a baby whose inner thoughts were voiced by Bruce Willis. She would later appear in the 1990 sequel Look Who’s Talking Too.  

And Alley even played a fictionalized version of herself in the 2005 Showtime series Fat Actress, a show that drew comedy from her public and media treatment over her weight gain and loss.

Alley won her first Emmy for best lead actress in a comedy series for her role in Cheers in 1991, and her second for best lead actress in a miniseries or television movie in 1993 for playing the title role in the CBS TV movie David’s Mother. She is pictured here with a People Choice award for Favorite Female in a New Television Series in 1998

Alley starred in the hit 1987 movie Look Who’s Talking alongside John Travolta, which was the 5th highest grossing movie of the year

Alley’s family announced her death on Monday, following her battle with colon cancer.

In a statement on social media, her family said: ‘She was surrounded by her closest family and fought with great strength, leaving us with a certainty of her never-ending joy of living and whatever adventures lie ahead.

‘As iconic as she was on screen, she was an even more amazing mother and grandmother.’ 

Colon cancer is known as a silent killer around the world because symptoms often don’t present themselves until a patient is beyond a cure. 

Only a third of patients are diagnosed in stage one – when the cancer is 90 percent curable. It’s unclear what stage Alley’s cancer had progressed to. 

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