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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.

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.' 

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

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