BBM.
This is a very interesting and profound insight. I think you could be correct.
This question may play strongly into the penalty phase (assuming there is one) deliberations, as well as mitigation. And she completely, totally, thoroughly blew it on these questions. Not a single drop of remorse over the fractured relationships, not a single bit of acceptance for her part in damaging the relationships, nothing. Just me, me, me. This was a GOLDEN chance for her to sob about how she regrets so many mistakes, yada, yada, and wants only for a chance to repair their relationship. How she is so grateful for their presence there supporting her, despite the rough relationship they have had. Etc.
What the jurors now know is that her own mother, sitting right there in the room every single day, is not terribly close to her, nor she to her parents.
And omg, what an awful position to be in, facing the DP.