14 DAY TRIAL // It ain’t over until the fat lady sings – or, depending on the case, until all profitability has been sucked out of a dramatic real-life situation. True Tori, Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott’s Lifetime docuseries, ended last week but they’re getting a special tonight, also on Lifetime.
Called True Tori: The Reunion: All Questions Answered, the special will focus on the time that passed since the two finished shooting for the docuseries and how they continue to work on their marriage, after coming to a consensus of sorts that Tori will forgive him for cheating on her last year.
As two teasers released for it can confirm, it will also show Tori taking questions that perhaps many fans were left asking once the docuseries ended, like how come she never asked Dean if the woman he slept with in December, when he was exposed in the tabloids, was the only one he cheated on Tori with.
According to Tori, who looks slightly distressed when speaking with Brooke Anderson on the topic, this is the number one question she’s been asking herself since she found out about his transgression. But she’s afraid to ask it.
“I was afraid. I'm still afraid because I feel like there's no good answer,” she explains. If he tells her there were more women, she would have “no choice but to leave,” but if he tells her that there was only one, she would not believe him because her trust in him is not restored yet.
In another video, Anderson asks Tori if she ever thought that Dean’s cheating on her was like Karma coming back to bite her in the you-know-what because they started their romance by cheating on their respective partners too.
Tori’s reply fails to answer the question, by offering the justification of “love.” “Obviously what happened was hurtful to other people. But you can’t help it when you fall in love with someone. I didn’t actively look for it. I didn’t mean for it to happen, but what at the time I thought was my soulmate, and I fell in love with him,” she says.
Will this new special finally manage to convince skeptics that Tori didn’t plan this whole cheating scandal (in the sense of “make up, invent”) just to get a new show / source of revenue? It’s hard to tell until it airs but, after the teasers were released, not few were the voices saying online that she still comes across as unconvincing.
The number one argument used by conspiracy theorists to “prove” that the whole marriage crisis is a sham is this: where is Emily Goodhand, the woman Dean slept with, in all this? How come she went to just one tabloid to spill her beans and then just disappeared off the face of the Earth?
As TMZ news director Mike Walters said in April, “[Emily Goodhand] doesn't exist. In all the ways to check that people exist, she doesn't exist.” Which, of course, would explain why she’s not saying a peep anymore, now that Dean and Tori are cashing in on the “scandal.”
True Tori: The Reunion: All Questions Answered airs today, June 3, at 8 p.m. on Lifetime. Will you be tuning in or are you just about done with all this Spelling drama, manufactured or not?