14 DAY TRIAL // When not even your old friends stand up for you in public, you know you’re in trouble. Tori Spelling documented her marital problems with Dean McDermott on a docuseries on Lifetime, called True Tori, which also got a “reunion” special, but ratings weren’t stellar. It turns out that not even Ian Ziering tuned in to watch it.
Tori and Ian starred together on the hit series “Beverly Hills 90210” and, from what he’s telling Us Weekly, we could conclude that they are not close friends today, even if they hit it off back in the day. Ian, for one, doesn’t understand how Tori could agree to air all her dirty laundry in public like this.
Join the club, Ian. You are not alone.
“I've seen clips... it's not appointment television for me,” he says. “It's tough to watch. It saddens me to see Tori going through all this pain [and] that there are kids involved. I have a tremendous amount of love for Tori and it's just sad. I'm sad.”
He doesn’t deny that all this drama makes for “great television” but he stresses that he has his reasons to “question the motives” behind agreeing to do the show. In saying this, he’s actually saying what millions have also been saying, that Tori is going public with such intimate details because she’s desperate for cash and she’d be able to sell her soul to the Devil, if push came to shove.
If you never saw a single clip from True Tori and thus you have no idea just how intimate the details Tori talked about were, embedded below is a video that wasn’t included in the episodes aired because there wasn’t enough time. It aired with the “Reunion” special.
It was shot after a counseling session that Dean walked out of because he couldn’t stand talking about his love life anymore. Once he was out of the room, with the door slammed in the process, Tori began the TMI overdose.
Ziering believes that the best description for True Tori is “train wreck.”
“I don't know what to make of it. It's a train wreck, it's a train wreck! And I can't explain it, because I don't know the details. I'm just a witness and a bystander, like we all are. It's like, why is this even happening? It just seems as [if] there is nothing sacred,” he explains in the interview.
On the other hand, he’s convinced that “Tori knows what she’s doing” because she’s “a smart girl.” Which is basically yet another way of delicately saying that she did it for the money.
Of course, Ziering too has very good reasons to talk about Tori, even if only to trash her reality series: this summer, he will return to the small screen in the sequel to Syfy’s hilariously bad disaster movie “Sharknado.” Though the original film was so bad and so popular that the sequel pretty much sells itself, every little bit of extra publicity also helps.