Richard Pryor’s Daughter Reveals Shocking Childhood Memory With White Mom, But That’s Not All!

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, the daughter of the late comedian Richard Pryor, is opening up about her childhood. But what she has to say about her famous father and her white mother just might surprise and enrage you!

The revelation comes as part of the release of Stordeur Pryor’s new memoir, “Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me.” In the book, she details the complex dynamics she shared with her parents and divulges a deeply painful incident in which her own mother hurled a racial slur—the N-word, specifically—at her when she was just 12 years old.

The fraught moment came after a heated argument that she and her mother were engaged in, and it quickly became a pain point from then on. Speaking with PEOPLE, Stordeur Pryor explained that while her mother harmed her in that moment, she still knows that her mom loved her despite their issues.

“Even with what my mom said, with the ways my mom mishandled — that’s the light way of saying it — the racial dynamic in our relationship, she loved me. I’ve always known that my family has, but to be entirely honest, it’s still not a conversation that I’ve been able to sink into and have with them perhaps on the level that I would like to,” Stordeur Pryor said.

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In a separate interview with PBS, she also talked about the complicated relationship she had with her comedian father, whom she didn’t meet until she was about six years old. Stordeur Pryor also shared how she wanted to claim him when she was younger and as she grew up, but hearing stories about his success and the personal demons he was battling made it hard.

“People would talk to me about that and the best way for me to protect myself—not from my father or my connection with him—but people’s intrusion, was to start courting that reality off. And I didn’t start doing it until I got in the middle of this work,” she explained.

In her book, Stordeur Pryor also explained how she felt like she was never “funny enough, or creative enough, or Black enough” to be his daughter and that the iconic entertainer “struggled to show up as a parent.”

Reflecting on the N-word incident with her mother, Stordeur Pryor later told PBS that her mom never apologized for calling her that, even though she had plenty of opportunities to do so.

“She just couldn’t because of who she was,” she said. “I had to make a decision that she had a hard life, and I was going to love her the very best I could. But I think about it like ‘The Princess and the Pea,’ and it was a hard knot between us that just never unfurled. It just never cleared up in our entire relationship.”