Tori Spelling Talks ‘Love at First Sight’, ‘90210’ Insecurities
Tori Spelling talks about hosting the new MTV relationship mystery dating show “Love at First Lie: Who’s a Couple and Who’s a Cheater?” The former “Beverly Hills, 90210” actor also thinks about the relationship with criticism as a teenage star before social media. (Oct. 13) (AP production by Gary Gerard Hamilton)
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Dean McDermott opens up about the reason behind his split from Tori Spelling.
The actor and “Chopped Canada” host spoke out for the first time since his split from Spelling in an interview with Chron published Wednesday.
McDermott, 57, says the couple, who had been sleeping apart for several years, began the sleep arrangement when Spelling, 50, brought pets into their bedroom, including a pig and dogs.
“We know dogs have accidents, and our particular dogs have had a lot of them. And I just couldn’t handle it anymore,” he told the outlet. “So I set a healthy boundary for myself and said, ‘I can’t do that. I cannot live and sleep in such a state.’ I drew that boundary for myself and moved to another room, and it just went from there. There were no attempts to somehow solve the problem and get back into the room.”
McDermott also told the publication that his long-standing drug problems also contributed to the breakdown of their marriage, which led the “Beverly Hills, 90210” star to spend more time with his five children. McDermott has a child from a previous marriage.
“I became more and more isolated and she became more and more isolated with the children. We were roommates. We rarely ate together. We would sit down and have a family meal, but it was always disjointed,” he said. “It made me feel worse because I knew I was a big part (of the problem), and I was at a point where I felt like I couldn’t do anything about it.”
“The relationship suffers a lot,” he said. “What do you think will happen if you are in a roommate situation and there is no connection or intimacy?”
USA TODAY has reached out to Spelling’s representatives for comment.
The Open Range actor also revealed that the failed relationship led to dark thoughts.
“I’ve never been so lonely in my life with six other people in the same house,” he said. “I didn’t know how to get out of the situation I was in. It hurt me. I was heartbroken. I was depressed. I hated myself. I didn’t want to live.”
In the interview, he also blamed “Hollywood” and his mother-in-law Candy Spelling as contributors to the dissolution of their marriage. But McDermott still took on some responsibility.
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“I’m going to spend the rest of my life trying to make amends for taking something that was really beautiful and just tearing it down year after year, day after day,” he said.
McDermott announced his split from Spelling on social media in June in a since-deleted Instagram post. Various media reports have seen the couple together with other people.
In July, Spelling told TMZ that she “always looked better on her own.” The couple has endured ups and downs since their wedding in 2006, including McDermott’s infidelity.
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