Clare Crawleyand her mother, Lilia, have a special bond.

TheBachelorettestar opened up about their relationship during her brief time on the show.

“It’s hard.”

Clare Crawley posing

Clare’s mom has Alzheimer’s and dementia, and her diagnosis has been hard on the reality star.

They held me up when the weight of my mom’s diagnosis crushed my soul.

We fight together."

Clare Crawley hugging her mom

“I’m so thankful to be able to see my mom in person now,” she wrote.

She has good days and bad, Just like we all do.

Well today I couldn’t hide my hard day.

Clare Crawley smiling with her mom

A mother always knows.

“Dementia’s brutal,” she said on theBachelor Happy Hourpodcast last November (viaUs Weekly).

But he had come up and had a talk with my mom."