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Dallas star Charlene Tilton on her childhood with mentally ill mother

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Charlene Tilton opened up about her 'tumultuous' childhood and her struggles being raised by her mentally ill mother in a new interview with People published on Wednesday.

The 64-year-old actress, who starred on Dallas for the majority of its run in the late 1970s and '80s, revealed that her mother's schizophrenia progressed throughout her childhood to the point that she was institutionalized for several years.

Tilton described how her mother Katherine got pregnant after she began seeing an Air Force pilot during a period when she was working as a secretary at the Pentagon.

However, her father didn't stick around after Charlene was born. 'My biological father didn't want anything to do with me,' she said, noting that her fame as an adult didn't change that. 'He had to have known about me — Dallas was so huge — but he never reached out. 'She later learned via a DNA test that she had three half-siblings who had also never met their father, though she also learned that he had died six months before her discovery.

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