14 DAY TRIAL // Unless she courted this type of media attention, which some believe she did, Tori Spelling is forced to deal with more negativity than before the premiere of her Lifetime docuseries True Tori. Two different reports claim she’s addicted to pain medication, which she’s now taking in a bid to stay thin.
The former “Beverly Hills 90210” star has always found a way to turn her life into a “product” she could package and resell to the public in a variety of ways, be it through reality shows, exclusive interviews, planted juicy stories, staged photo-ops with the paparazzi, or blog posts.
Her latest offering is the Lifetime docuseries, which is believed to be the result of a fake and planted cheating scandal, which she orchestrated with husband Dean McDermott.
Those who don’t believe that she would lie about this, like insiders speaking to Star Magazine and InTouch Weekly, paint a different picture of Tori: heartbroken by Dean’s betrayal, she has started abusing the pain medication she was on, both to forget about her terrible marriage and in order to stay thin, thinking that Dean would stay if she’s at the top of her game physically.
Friends tell these two weeklies that she’s addicted to the prescription medication and that she is now taking it for other reasons than those she got the prescription for, like her persistent headaches.
“She abuses pain pills. I have seen huge bottles of Vicodin and Oxycodone while I was visiting her. Once I saw her at lunch, popping Vicodin with wine – which you shouldn’t do. Once she offered me a Vicodin when we were all out to dinner, and when I passed, she offered me a Norco that was even stronger than the Vicodin!” a source tells Star.
Another source tells the tab that, though her doctor prescribed her Vicodin for her migraines, she’s now taking it to suppress her appetite and to “feel fuzzy inside.” Tori’s weight has plummeted since Dean was exposed as a cheater in the press, and the tipster seems to suggest she’s shifted the extra pounds by medicating herself and not because she’s so distraught over the probable demise of her marriage.
“Nobody who has a migraine wants to go out for drinks and dinner with friends,” says the source, adding that Tori has shocked her circle of friends with the admission that she finds a “visible rib cage” a very beautiful thing.
InTouch is also running with the addiction story, citing a friend as saying that “Tori has been using painkillers for years [to treat migraines]. The frequency of Tori’s migraines has increased. Tori has always been able to rush to hospital when she gets a massive migraine and plead that she needs Dilaudid – she’s done it for years.”
The end of the week usually means US weeklies come out with a new issue. Tori’s marriage and her docuseries are getting a lot of attention this week but, whichever report you choose to believe, she’s not looking good because she’s either lying about the whole thing and quite shamelessly so, or she’s dealing with it very poorly, by abusing drugs.