14 DAY TRIAL // Tori Spelling is stepping into dangerous Kardashian territory, asking her cheating husband Dean McDermott to get a vasectomy on camera. It all went down last night, on the second episode of their reality show True Tori, season 2, “Back to the Future.”
Lifetime has the full episode available online, in case you missed it when it aired.
Embedded below is just a preview for it, in which Tori says in their couples therapy sessions that she has decided that, in light of his cheating on her last year and her very difficult fourth pregnancy, she no longer wants to have children with him.
“Does the world really need to see this?”
One of the story arcs this episode was that Dean should get a vasectomy because Tori is done with having his babies. They both go back and forth on this, partly because they “make beautiful babies together” and they fear that, if they don’t have this connection anymore, they will have very little else.
They go and see a specialist and even book Dean for an intervention, but in the morning of the vasectomy, he breaks down on camera, kicks out the production crew, and demands that his privacy be respected.
He even compares himself to Spencer Pratt, the much-vilified star of MTV’s The Hills, who married Heidi Montag, and for a couple of years, was king of the tabloids, until he had nothing more interesting to say. He’s broke now, having spent all his reality TV money on crystals, expensive cars, and bling.
Dean says he doesn’t even know anymore where to draw the line with their reality show, but he feels very strongly about having a camera inside the room where he’s getting the vasectomy. “'Does the world really need to know this? Does the world really need to see this?” he asks Tori. They’re both crying at this point.
The answer is “no.” No, the world doesn’t really need to know this and the world most definitely doesn’t need to see it happening. In the end, Dean decides against getting the vasectomy, partly because he doesn’t want to have it on camera, like Tori asked.
Tori’s hoarding problem, fear that she might not be able to provide for her family anymore
Other topics discussed in the most recent episode include Tori’s hoarding issues: she has 127 vaults of personal stuff stored away, and she refuses to sort through it to make some money and rid herself of the garbage, accusing her friends of not being sensitive enough towards her.
She also has a couple of breakdowns on camera about how she fears she might not be able to provide for her family anymore, but she refuses to downsize their lifestyle because “my father wouldn’t have wanted this.” She also namedrops her mother a couple of times.
Ironically, the episode shows Tori’s friend telling her that she doesn’t need a camera crew around and a reality show to know that her life is great, while being filmed for a reality show. Tori cries some more because, without the reality show, she is “nothing.”
The episode also plants the seed for next week’s main story: a reunion between Tori and her ex-husband, whom she cheated on with Dean.
So they’re no longer broke, are they?
Exactly one year ago, Tori made headlines around the world when she went on record saying that she was so broke that she and her husband couldn’t even afford a vasectomy, which was a strange thing to hear from someone who used to go on $10,000 (€7,850.6) vacations, because one such procedure cost between $300 (€235.5) to $3,500 (€2748.5). Cheaper than a vacation, actually.
Both Tori and Dean later tried to backtrack on her comment but by that time, it was already too late.
The good news is that, with this new Lifetime series on the air and at its second season, it seems a given that these two can now totally afford a vasectomy – even if he didn’t get it, after all.