14 DAY TRIAL // Tori Spelling continued the promo tour for her new ABC sitcom with former “Beverly Hills 90210” co-star Jennie Garth with an appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen and used the air time to set the record straight on a few things written and said about her in recent months.
For starters, all of you saying that she staged the whole cheating scandal just so Lifetime would give her the docuseries on her marital drama with Dean McDermott don’t know what you’re talking about.
Tori professed herself “shocked” to find out that people were saying that she’d fake such a heartbreaking event in her life and, as you can see in the first video embedded below, insisted that she didn’t have one single scene from the show scripted in any way.
“You couldn't get any more real. And, I'm not that good an actress...,” she says. Then, perhaps realizing she’s there to promote a new TV series, in which she’s supposed to be acting, she adds quickly, “in drama. In comedy, I excel.”
Tori also denies rumors that she’s planning a new reality series in which she’d track down all of Dean’s former mistresses to confront them, and reveals that her most awkward TV moment so far is the ugly cry that she had in the bedroom and was included on the Lifetime series.
In the second video below, Tori denies claims made by Jason Priestley in his new book about how she’s so hungry for money that she sold his wedding invitation at a yard sale, for no more than $5 (€3.66). She says she has no recollection of that but she believes it never happened because, she argues, that invite would have gone for much more money than the amount stipulated by Priestley.
Now that she’s pushing a new show, Tori is being asked a lot of questions about the True Tori docuseries but she seems determined to maintain until the end that there was nothing wrong with it. However, skeptics who didn’t buy her story then are still not buying it now.
Drama in the Spelling-McDermott household began right before Christmas 2013, when some woman named Emily Goodhand went to the tabloids to say she had a 2-night affair with Dean when he was in Canada on business.
The story spiraled into divorce rumors and, for weeks, Tori refused to address them. She continued to do it even after Lifetime announced it would document her “journey” for a new docuseries because, apparently, she could always decide she couldn’t forgive Dean and file for divorce.
Of course, that never happened. Several things in the way all the drama played out, including the fact that this Emily vanished off the face of the earth after she told her story once, made many believe that the whole thing had been arranged by Tori herself, because she’d become strapped for cash again.
Here she is denying it again. Do you believe her?