14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, Lifetime confirmed that they had booked former “Beverly Hills 90210” star Tori Spelling for a “courageous” docuseries about her marital problems with Dean McDermott. With just weeks to go until the series’ premiere, more details into the reason Spelling agreed to do it have emerged online.
It has nothing to do with money, Radar Online says – that is, with the fact that Tori is in debt and not making enough money to support her and her family’s current lifestyle. True Tori, as the docuseries is called, is all about humiliating her husband, Dean McDermott.
The first rumor about how Tori’s 7-year marriage to Dean wasn’t as rosy as she would have fans believe started making the rounds around Christmastime, when a woman went to the tabloids to offer a graphic account of their 2-night fling during one of his business trips to Canada.
Later accounts from unnamed insiders said that this woman was just one of the long series of extramarital affairs Dean had been entertaining, which Tori only found out after she hired a PI to look into his life more closely.
McDermott checked into rehab shortly afterwards, saying he owed it to Tori and their 4 children to get his life back in order. He wouldn’t say what he was suffering from, but there is one rumor claiming these affairs and random hookups had gotten completely out of control.
Tori will be making sure he lives to regret the day he so much as dared to look at another woman, the report notes.
“[McDermott] is far from being a willing participant. He felt extremely pressured by Tori to do the reality show. Tori told him they had to do it because their fans want to know what is going on with their marriage. Too bad Dean doesn’t feel that way,” a spy explains for the tab.
“This should be a time of reflection, introspection, healing and figuring out what the next step is for them. The last thing Dean wants to deal with is production schedules and cameras. He asked Tori to wait a few months before doing the reality show, he just needs some time… but she insisted it had to be now. Reluctantly Dean agreed because he feels this is all his fault,” says the source.
Tori is looking to humiliate him in front of the cameras (and the audiences, of course), to make him pay for all the heartbreak he’s caused her – because she’s definitely not doing it for the money: another source tells Radar she’ll only make $100,000 (€72,971) for the series.