The interviewer asked about my two-year gap and I gave the short version instead of the real one

The panel got to the resume gap and asked what I'd been doing between March 2023 and this spring. I said freelance work and studying, which is true, just not the whole truth. The real answer is my mom had a stroke and I moved back home for fourteen months to help my dad manage her care and the house. I didn't want that to become the interview, didn't want the sympathetic head tilt eating up my forty minutes of technical time. So I gave the short version, got the offer later that week, and I still don't know if I should've just said it straight.