14 DAY TRIAL // Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott are the first reality TV couple to air their dirty laundry post-cheating scandal in front of the cameras, but even though they reconciled at the end of the season, they’re far from done. Lifetime airs True Tori season 2 starting October 21.
A new video from the show has emerged online, showing Tori coming face to face with Dean’s ex-wife, Mary Jo Eustace, on whom Dean cheated years ago with Tori. They find out they have more in common than they – or Tori in particular – would have thought.
We’re to assume from this that Tori is still thinking about divorcing Dean and that, no matter the conclusion on the season 1 finale, she hasn’t even begun to forgive him for sleeping with another woman while away on business.
The scandal that turned into a lucrative business deal
What started all this drama was one magazine’s interview with a woman from Canada, who claimed to have had a 2-night affair with Dean while he was there to shoot a new show, and Tori was at home with the kids.
The story came out in December 2013, and while neither would confirm or deny it with the press, it eventually led to Lifetime offering Tori the chance to tell her story to the camera in a new docuseries. We should note that the woman in question never again emerged in public or spoke to any other media outlet, which made many assume that she never existed.
The docuseries saw the two discuss the most intimate details of their life as a couple in front of the camera, with a marriage counselor. Thus, the world got to learn that Dean considered Tori was spending too much time with their 4 kids and too little with him, in between the sheets.
We also found out that Dean had a problem with drugs and alcohol, and that he’d been depressed, all of which contributed to his “desperate” gesture of seeking comfort with another woman.
Before Dean confirmed for the camera that he was a drug addict and an alcoholic who had relapsed, his ex-wife hinted at it in an interview with the tabs: this was the first time that such a story made it out in print.
Mary Jo is back
However, it wasn’t the first time that Mary Jo would agree to step into the spotlight. She is the woman to whom Dean was married when he first met Tori, and whom he dumped in order to marry the former “Beverly Hills 90210” star.
With all that, she tells Tori in the video below, she doesn’t hate him, though she is positive he has a serious issue with commitment or staying faithful. She also wants Tori to know that, had it not been her he cheated with, another woman would have certainly taken her place.
In this chat, which will be included on one of the new episodes of the docuseries, Mary Jo comes across as sympathetic and understanding of Tori and her drama, a woman who can offer advice to another after being in the same situation she finds herself in now.
Tori, on the other hand, is desperate. “It's just hard to think you can tell someone this one day and then months later, it just changes so drastically,” she says, after Mary Jo gives her a love letter Dean wrote to her, just days before he cheated with Tori.
Most of all this drama is probably not even true
If anything of what is shown on camera is even remotely true, then Tori must be going through hell right now, weighing in whether she should divorce the father of her children and the man she thought she’d grow old with.
However, there’s a good chance none of it is real. Reality television is hardly ever “real,” and staging all types of scandals has become norm for D-list celebrities who are seeing a decrease in ratings and are dying to keep themselves relevant because their show is their only source of revenue.
Conspirationists have already uncovered plenty of pieces of evidence that prove Tori has been lying all along, from the fact that the alleged mistress doesn’t seem to have an online identity (or have left any paper trace in her entire life), to the way in which Tori is acting. No heartbroken woman who has just found out her man cheated on her would run to a TV network in order to save her marriage, they say. Neither would she continue to humiliate herself this way.
Check out the video. What do you say: are they right, or is Tori really living out her worst nightmare?