Veteran actress Amalia Fuentes is hurting over statements made by her daughter Liezel Martinez about her bout with cancer.

The statements came from Liezel's recent interview with Kris Aquino that aired on ABS-CBN.

“That’s all I get? She owes [singer] Pops Fernandez her life? How about me?” she lamented in a separate interview with Raymond Gutierrez aired via rival station GMA-7 on December 27.

“I raised her like a princess, alone, by my lonesome fat self. His father (actor Romeo Vasquez) left when she was only two and a half years old. I worked like a horse and this is what I'm going to get in return? Just a ‘sorry?’"

Fuentes was commenting on her daughter’s statements about thanking Fernandez, her husband and other friends for their continued support through her battle with cancer, while she only got a “sorry.”

“Well, I’m sorry for her, too,” Fuentes snorted. “I'm sorry for her because if she doesn't honor her father and mother, richness, long life, and happiness will not be hers because that is in the fourth commandment...”

She added: “Liezel was saying sorry for not being an ideal daughter…? I never asked for an ideal daughter because a mother is always prepared to forgive and forget, just as I have forgiven her for all the shame, all the embarrassments that I have suffered on her account."

"I've been a good, good mother to her. No mother could be better to her.”

According to Fuentes, she gave her daughter more than what “her friends gave her.” These included “physical, emotional, and financial support” and as such she should have at the least been mentioned in that light.

Fuentes assailed her daughter’s husband, actor Albert Martinez, for not preparing for Liezel’s illness.

“Shouldn’t he be that one who should save especially if somebody in the family is sick? Albert must have a foresight to think, like [investing on] insurance.”

She also bewailed her son-in-law’s seeming over-reliance on her.

“During the conference with Liezl’s doctors, when somebody was handing him the bills, he pointed towards me…for these people to give me the bills. Have you seen anything like that?

“You’re the husband. You’re a man. Even if I’m the mother, what he should have done is ask me to my face like a real man. He shouldn’t have just pointed towards me assumingly. I saw him do it myself.

“He should’ve just asked, 'Ma, how do we go about this? Ma, this is the only money we have.’ They know that I don’t appear in movies anymore. Whatever little money I am making is just enough for me to live a decent lifestyle. Not like…the lifestyle of the rich and famous."

In the end, Fuentes affirmed that she had forgiven Liezl’s supposed transgression and that she still loves her daughter and will support her no matter what.

“Liezel, just remember that I love you. You don't have to say you're sorry and you don't have to say you have to be an ideal daughter.”

Then why did she choose to nag on her beloved daughter via national TV?

Fuentes bitterly smiled and allowed for a short answer: “As a mother, it is my duty to teach my daughter how to be grateful.”