Tori Spelling got candid about where she stands with ex Dean McDermott and new girlfriend Lily Calo following the former couple’s turbulent split.
The Beverly Hills 90210 alum, 50 — who filed for divorce from Dean, 57, after 18 years of marriage in March — said she now enjoys family meals with the new lovebirds.
“I really like Lily. Not bad. It’s just, you know, it’s different. RIGHT?’ the star said of the rallies in the latest episode of her misSpelling podcast, released Monday.
“We’re co-parenting really well right now,” she added, referring to her and Dean’s five children: Liam, 17, Stella, 15, Hattie, 12, Finn, 11, and Beau, 7.
Tori also opened up about the explosive fight between her and Dean that led to their split, during which the actress smashed a baked potato on the floor.
Tori Spelling got candid about where she stands with ex Dean McDermott and new girlfriend Lily Calo following the former couple’s turbulent split; seen in December
The Beverly Hills 90210 alum, 50 — who filed for divorce from Dean, 57, after 18 years of marriage in March — said she now enjoys family meals with the new lovebirds; Lily and Dean in November
The actress said she and Dean started arguing after returning home from a day of filming in June 2023.
Dean allegedly made a remark to him that “he knew would be really hurtful to hear.”
The actress did not reveal Dean’s exact words, but recalled that his remark affected her deeply — to the point that she angrily smashed a loaded baked potato she was preparing on the floor of the kitchen.
“This guttural scream came out of me,” Tori remembers. “It wasn’t even like a sexy scream, like we were in a horror movie. It was like a beast. It wasn’t pretty at all.
‘And I was like, ‘Fuck you!’ And I took my most precious possession at that moment, my baked potato. It was loaded to perfection and I crushed it on the ground.
After his outburst, a wave of regret washed over Spelling. She retreated to a bedroom, thinking that she and Dean had been sleeping apart for about three years, a decision she attributed to him.
An “excited” Dean began knocking on the locked door before entering the room through an exterior entrance that Tori had neglected to secure.
“So he came in and he was very, very upset. And he said, “I want a divorce. It’s over.” And I said, ‘OK. Great. OK.’
Tori also opened up about the explosive fight between her and Dean that led to their split, during which the actress smashed a baked potato on the floor.
The actress said she and Dean started arguing after they returned home from a day of filming in June 2023. Dean allegedly took a dig at her, saying that “he knew it would be really hurtful to hear “.
The actress did not reveal Dean’s exact words, but recalled that his remark affected her deeply — to the point that she angrily smashed a loaded baked potato she was preparing on the floor of the kitchen ; Dean seen in 2018
That day, Tori recalls, Dean publicly announced their divorce via an Instagram post, which she only became aware of when her 15-year-old daughter informed her.
She added: “I felt like this giant boulder had been lifted off my chest. I could breathe deeply and I was like, “Oh my God. He said it, so now I’m free.” . . he did it, and now I can move on. He published it, let’s go. Yes. I needed it. » “I couldn’t do it myself.
Dean deleted the post the next morning, but by then, news of the split had gone viral. The couple “carried on as if nothing had happened.”
Last month, on the same day that Tori Spelling recorded the first episode of her podcast, she called Dean McDermott on-air to inform him of her divorce filing.
A day later, Dean broke his silence on the divorce filing, saying he and Tori were “all good.”
The former couple met on the set of the TV movie Mind Over Murder in 2005.
There was an instant connection, even though both were already married.
“We had this period of falling in love very, quickly, passionately,” the actress said on her podcast, describing it as a “fast and furious romance.”
She praised Dean for letting her be herself. “I just remember that I could show him.”
She continued, explaining, “It wasn’t cute, laughing, ‘That’s what people want me to be.’ I was able to be like, loud and like ugh, the body type of Tori. I could have had the face of a chicken,” she said.
“I’m not just Donna Martin, the perfect nice girl. I could have a bad girl in me and that was okay. And he loved all those sides and he loved how smart I was and accepted me.
In May 2006, Tori and Dean got married.
In a scoop revealed by DailyMail.com in October, it was revealed that Dean had started a new relationship with Lily, a 34-year-old account executive. He has since moved to live with her.
Not to be overshadowed, shortly after images of Dean with his new partner surfaced, Tori was spotted on a date with her CEO friend, Ryan Cramera.
However, despite these developments, Dean expressed his lasting love for Tori and shared no regrets about their shared past in a candid interview with DailyMail.com.
The couple met on the set of the TV movie Mind Over Murder in 2005 and married in May 2006; seen in 2006
Spelling and McDermott share five children: Liam, 17, Stella, 15, Hattie, 12, Finn, 11, and Beau, seven. McDermott is also father to son Jack, 25, whom he shares with ex Mary Jo Eustace, 61.
In her divorce filing, the influencer requested sole physical custody of their five minor children and joint legal custody, seen in 2019.
He said: “It was a real fairy tale. I mean, it was a beautiful love story. Love at first sight and getting married in the most beautiful way.
In the interview, Dean described how their marriage imploded as he and Tori separated – their problems compounded by his addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs.
“All Tori has done so far is want me to be happy and healthy and I have inflicted a lot of damage and pain on this woman,” he told DailyMail. com.
“I take responsibility for it today. And it’s the biggest fine I’ll ever have to make.
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