Tori Spelling’s mother, Candy, has commented for the first time about her daughter’s pregnancy – and she sounds like any proud grandmother-to-be. 

“I’m thrilled and ecstatic,” she says, “and if Aaron were here, I know how thrilled he would also be to share in such a happy occasion.”

Aaron Spelling – Candy’s husband and Tori’s father – died in June at age 83. On Tuesday, sources confirmed that Tori is 14 weeks pregnant with her first child with husband Dean McDermott.

Candy Spelling’s comment could signal a thawing in what has been a tense relationship between mother and daughter. In June, Tori, 33, said she was upset that she first heard of her father’s death from a friend: “I was devastated. I thought I had some time (to see him). And I was saddened that the news had not come from my mother.”

Candy quickly responded with a statement reading, “We are deeply saddened that, during our time of loss and grief, we are forced to respond to the media frenzy caused by the mean-spirited and surprising comments made by Tori to the press.”