14 DAY TRIAL // Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott documented the aftermath of the cheating scandal Dean got himself into last year on season 1 of their Lifetime docuseries, True Tori. Because the network found the interest in all this drama promising, despite somewhat disappointing ratings, it renewed the show for a second season.
It premiered last night, with the episode “Dealing with Demons,” which kicked off with the day Dean and Tori returned home from their 1-month vacation at the beach, during which time Tori says she fell in love all over again with her husband.
However, once back home, she was confronted from all sides of “reminders” of his cheating, so they started having problems again. So she came to think about whether seeing the woman he cheated on her with wouldn’t help her get over this moment quicker.
Tori sees Dean’s mistress, is “devastated”
Despite rumors and even hints included in official trailers for the new season, the premiere didn’t bring Tori and Dean’s mistress, Emily Goodhand, face to face. The former “Beverly Hills 90210” star did see a picture of the woman, though, and her reaction wasn’t quite what you’d imagine.
“Oh god, I'm devastated,” she said as she was looking at the photo. Emily, it must be said, doesn’t have an online identity at all: the only time a face was assigned to the name was when Us Weekly ran her picture inside the issue carrying her tell-all interview about the 2-night affair she had with Dean.
For the first time ever, the magazine didn’t publish the article online so, to this day, no one really knows how Emily looks, let alone know more of her life. This gave way to never-ending speculation that she doesn’t even exist, and that the entire cheating scandal was planned by Tori and her PR team to get her the show where she’d be talking about it.
On the season 2 premiere episode, Emily’s face was blurred, so viewers still didn’t get to see her. But we have Tori’s word that she’s not really all that easy on the eyes.
“Am I a [B-word] if I say I think she's unattractive?” she asked.
“I was completely blown away by what Emily looked like. I found her unattractive,” she confided to her therapist later in the show. “Before this, I would never have felt threatened by that girl. I'd be like, ‘My husband would never,’ but now all bets are off. It could be anyone.”
Pregnancy scare and empty-nest drama
The full episode is available online, on the Lifetime webpage, in case you want to see for yourself Tori’s reaction to seeing Emily’s photo for the first time. It also includes a pregnancy scare and a lot of tearful scenes around the kids starting school, leaving the house empty, and Tori with no one but Dean to hang around.
And she really doesn’t want to be around him because he reminds her of how he betrayed her and broke her heart. This paves the way for very awkward moments that play out like staring competitions set to B-grade scary movies.
They also resume counseling and get to talk some more about their most intimate moments, giving cringe-worthy details about their love life and how it’s improved since the 1-month beach vacation.
Viewers actually get to see Tori pee, which we bet is not something you expected to see in writing anytime soon, because why would you. It was absolutely necessary, of course, because how else would you have known she took the pregnancy test? It was negative, by the way.