For the last twelve or thirteen years, Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have been a very public example of a really, really bad marriage and the myriad of mistakes one can make as husband and wife. Let’s review the situation since there was another incident this morning at their marital rental home.
Here is a timeline on the love story between Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott.
On July 3, 2004, Spelling married actor and writer Charlie Shanian. He parents were not happy with her choice but eventually her doting father spent millions on the elaborate 1920s themed wedding. Wolfgang Puck catered dinner for 350 attendees. She met Charlie, and actor, while working on a play with him. The following July she met Dean while filming the Lifetime TV-movie Mind Over Murder in Ottawa and they hooked up on the first day they met. He had always had a crush on her and she thought he was her soulmate. He was also married to Mary Jo. They had been married over ten years and have a son. Everyone gets divorced and as soon as both divorces were final the happy couple eloped in Figi on May 7, 2006. The immediately start making babies. Liam Aaron McDermott was born March 13, 2007.
Candy Spelling allegedly set up a $10 million dollar trust fund for Liam. Since Tori and her father had a falling out around the time of her first marriage, that was worsened by the quick divorce, he set up his will to leave millions to Candy but only $800,000 each to his two children so they would learn to take care of themselves. Tori’s brother seems to have managed to make it work. Tori has some serious unresolved issues that present themselves as overspending and hoarding and the money was quickly run through. But babies seem to bright trust funds so… Stella Doreen McDermott was born June 9, 2008. Hattie Margaret McDermott was born October 10, 2011, Finn Davey McDermott was born August 30, 2012 and Beau Dean McDermott was born March 2, 2017. And Tori is already talking about completing “The Brady Bunch” with one more kid. There is no information about whether or not any of the other children have trust funds.
On May 8, 2010 the lovebirds renew their vows in a public ceremony with friends and a shiny new ring for Tori. And the vow renewal curse kicked in. After Hattie was born in 2011, they lost their reality show and rumors of divorce and cheating were everywhere. So Tori got knocked up again, this time with Finn. She had a difficult pregnancy with Finn due to placenta previa and it appeared that the baby factory would close.
In 2013 Candy and Tori’s relationship got a bit better. I think she was turning to her mom during all the rumors of Dean’s cheating.
Then Dean got a job hosting Chopped Canada. Remember, that Canada is where Tori and Dean met and cheated on their spouses. Dean’s cheating there with someone called Emily Goodhand was all over the news. There was proof this time and Tori could no longer deny it. Emily was even giving interviews about the affair.
Somewhere around this time, Dean went to “rehab.”
By 2016, Tori and Dean were trying to make a comeback. They were shopping a new reality show with even more kids. They had done a few of them in the past when they needed money and now they needed money again. Baby number five was born last March. Things seemed back to normal last year. And by back to normal I mean there were rumors and blind items about Dean’s cheating and Tori’s financial problems.
Which brings us up to today. Yesterday, Tori was filming a Facebook digital cooking show called Secrets In The Sauce where Corrine Olympios was also filming. Corrine reports today that Tori seemed overwhelmed by motherhood. Tori looked puffy to me and several reports I’ve read make it unclear if Tori is pregnant now. So perhaps number six is on the way. Tori looked terrible, particularly for being somewhere that she is going to film, even if it is only a Facebook video. Tori also called the police last night some sights are reporting and as it turns out it was just Dean coming home. Sounds like she wasn’t expecting her husband to return home for the night. So she could be pregnant again, and he could be cheating again. It sort of fits their pattern.
This morning Dean called the police on Tori and told the operator that Tori suffers from mental illness. It appears that Tori got violent with Dean this morning and his reaction was to try to get her 5150ed. It didn’t work. While the police were inside assessing the situation, Dean was outside laughing with a cop and showing him his upper arm in some sort of “this is where the bad lady touched me” sort of way. The police left and no charges were filed and Tori wasn’t hauled off to the nut farm everything is back to The Never Ending sTORI of Tori and Dean.
I spent way too much time on this story today. For some reason Tori’s life fascinates me and also makes me a bit ashamed to be rubbernecking at it. Banjo is going to chew off one of my limbs if I don’t got buy him some dog food though. Time flies when you are reading about the Spelling family…
As I was writing this, many sites continued to post TORI SPELLING IS HAVING A MENTAL BREAKDOWN! as their title even after the facts were clear.
If you have five kids and are married to Dean McDermott, your entire life would be one long mental breakdown. I feel sorry for her. She needs some friends.
This is sad. I am one of “those” people that somehow watched all of her weird little reality shows – all the way up to, and including – the affair series. It was shameless – lol, and so was my curiosity to watch it unfold. Even being born with a diamond spoon in ones mouth doesnt make life butterflies and rainbows – Tori is a frickn billboard of that fact.
As Wendy Williams would say…. you are my people.
If this was Tori from Topeka having a tribe of babies while her husband was unemployed and cheating, I would not care.
BUT SHE IS A SPELLING! HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN? Can’t she just divorce Dean and film a reality show about moving back in with Candy? I need this in my shallow, empty life!
OMG TT- scoootttt over, I will bring the popcorn – THAT is a show I would love to see. Tori moves in with Mom – with ALLLLL the kids…
Me, too! Tori and Dean are a mess. The next reality show they are going to film is all the kids getting therapy. So the legacy continues…
Tori if you’re reading this, I WOULD TOTALLY WATCH THIS AND CHEER FOR YOU! Oh I’m so glad it’s just not me! It’s kinda whatever happened to baby Jane to me.
I hope Banjo got his little belly full so you can go back to rubber necking! I have been glued to any and everything Dean and Tori do – my oldest daughter and I couldn’t get enough of their reality show. I always felt bad for their first spouses, too and hoped Jack (the first son of Dean) was involved but just not allowed to be filmed. I don’t think it is a stretch that Tori may be “coo coo for Cocoa Puffs” with 5 kids, possibly a 6th on the way ESPECIALLY if her husband is cheating again. I so saw her life playing out much differently.
In other news, did you happen to catch #WWHL when Dennis Quaid was on the other night? I wondered if you thought he may be drunk because I thought he was one that had been to rehab?
Lastly, I keep meaning to ask you where the “Donate” button went on your blog. I like to surprise you here and there and the last several times I wanted to do that, the button was gone (or I’m an idiot and couldn’t find it). I appreciate all you do and the good stuff you always give us and like to show my appreciation! I know it was set up to help with your “legal fund” when someone sued you and you had to actually fight it. Of course you won, but I just wanted to know where the button went because I appreciate YOU! Happy Weekend!
That would be the best thing she could do. Those kids probably need stability. I would imagine Candy and Randy would be supportive and attempt to get Tori the help she needs. Dean is a loser. He is a low life who latched on to a Spelling. Any man who appears in a bath robe on national television is not to be trusted. I feel sorry for Tori.
I live near her. Rumor around these parts has it that the helicopter we heard circling the area last night for about 10-20 minutes was looking for a “prowler” on her property. So I can sort of confirm some of the drama.
Thanks for the confirmation. I find it weird that sites are reporting it just turned out to be Dean. Like he was just coming home from a long day at the office. Clearly she wasn’t expecting him and was home, probably alone with five small children in the house. If I were Tori, my second call after 911 would be Dean. Couldn’t he have just said, Oh hey, it’s me and avoided the whole helicopter thing?
When my house was broken into in the ghetto I stood outside afraid to go on for a couple hours because it was shift change at the cop shop. Then the moron cop showed up, was an asshole and then went back to his car only to find he had locked himself out of the running car.
Again, you bring total critical thought and sense to the yammering out there. Yea, why DIDNT she call Dean? Why the helicopters? And what a POS to try and claim she needs 5150’d. His humiliation and disrespect of her has no bounds.
I’m sorry to hear about your house getting broken into, but loved the story on the cop and the locked door.. that musta been so funny, and sooooo karmic..
I agree… that was my first though too. The helicopter would have likely been dispatched from LAPD. By air thats probably 5-10 minutes airtime, but still in the amount of time you need to organize all of this and fly over here one would think you would call it off when its the husband.
There was another helicopter this morning circling over the same area. I don’t know why they would come for a mental breakdown call, but perhaps she was saying some crazy stuff?
Nothing scares me more than the thought of a break in when I’m home… but it can really happen anywhere.
Let me also add that LAPD isn’t sending their copter if I call to report a break in at my house… unfair.
I feel like it was her calling him out. He was out late and she was PISSED. He’s a moron so probably lost his keys or was sneaking in trying not to wake her up and she was like “I’ll show that fucker” and called the cops claiming an intruder when she knew it was her cad hubby all along, just wanted to make a scene to shame him.
For someone so fearful, I am sure that they had security cameras and lights all around the house. Couldn’t be all that hard to see who it was. Sounds like a strange event.
Thanks for reconstructing the time-line … I have to admit I braked and had a good look at the train wreck too! I think that is one of my biggest fears: being 5150ed. Something in my brain would snap if some limpdick like dean was the catalyst. Like, you would be fucked up because you had wasted so many years of your life with such a pathetic loser but then, ironically, he’s the one calling you crazy!!
I can 100% see him doing that to her. Gaslighting her after being an enormous POS for the past 10 years.
I completely agree that he’s gaslighting her. Fake concern for his wife and he calls the cops…and makes sure the media knows all about it. I believe he’s trying to paint her as unstable because she’s had it with his freeloading ass. Maybe he thinks that a judge would award him custody of the kids and he can live off them. What a POS he is. I imagine Candy is just waiting for Tori to kick him to the curb.
If she’s having a mental breakdown I hope she gets the help and support she needs.
I confess to reading her books and she admits to having major anxiety and constantly worrying about her family’s safety – and she hates to be alone. This is not a good combination for her current situation.
I agree that she needs her Mum – looks like the combination of 5 kids and a rocky marriage are pushing her over the edge, but calling the cops is being an asshole. If he was really concerned he’d call Candy
She needs her mother.
I agree.
Agreed!
Tori screams at Dean to get a job because she can’t take it anymore. She gets out of control and throws things at him (I would). He documents that she has “mental problems” and he gets custody of kids and he gets to be a stay at home Dad on the paycheck from Tori’s mother. His plan is working.
None of that is true.
I remember reading a long time ago that when he had a job that took him out of state she would pretty much make him miserable about being away. This was before the Canadian cheating story. He was probably labeled as unhireable
Ha! Being a stay at home parent is no dream! Especially of FIVE kids. Poor Tori. I hope she is ok.
Dean married Tori thinking it would boost his carreer having THE Aaron Spelling as a Father-in-Law. He’s a loser and she needs to leave him.
Thanks for the confirmation. I find it weird that sites are reporting it just turned out to be Dean. Like he was just coming home from a long day at the office. Clearly she wasn’t expecting him and was home, probably alone with five small children in the house. If I were Tori, my second call after 911 would be Dean. Couldn’t he have just said, Oh hey, it’s me and avoided the whole helicopter thing?
When my house was broken into in the ghetto I stood outside afraid to go on for a couple hours because it was shift change at the cop shop. Then the moron cop showed up, was an asshole and then went back to his car only to find he had locked himself out of the running car.
Two things , old Deaner left MaryJo 3 weeks before the adoption of their 2 nd child , which Mary went on to adopt herself ! What kind of shit person does this ! Secondly Emily Goodhand was NEVER found in existence and believe me the press looked , it has been rumoured they used this as a story line in their reality show to get viewers and another contract . I tend to believe this , I think Tori had done some of her best acting over the Affair . Dean is over 100,000 behind in his child support payments for his first son with Mary . Mary had the opportunity to have him sent to jail last summer when it went to court and she graciously accepted his promise of prompt payment in Lou of going to prison . The judge told Mary Jo he was leaving it open ended if she changes her mind . He only paid her half of what he promised and to my knowledge hasn’t paid anymore . Deadbeat dad ! Sorry for my long rant on these two losers ! PS I love your blog TT
I thought the same thing regarding Emily. When that was all going down I specifically remember reading several articles, Twitter posts etc about how she couldn’t be located, no one could confirm her existence. I know in reality TV there is an abundance of fake storylines and I LIVE for some of them but I totally lost interest in Tori and Dean’s Lifetime show after reading all the speculation about if there really was an Emily Goodhand. .
Wow! I admit I believed it! I swallowed the story. You’re right, she definitely did her best acting although I must say, I’m also pretty spectacular when it comes to feeling sorry for myself and feeling full of self pity. I could be pretty convincing if I had to act it out.
Their marriage has been a train wreck. It’s pitiful when celebrities trot out their kids for the Paps. Tori brings their kids to the opening of a paper bag if she thinks they’ll be photographed. The kids never look happy, more like deer in the headlights. I feel sad for them.
I am by no means saying kids are entitled to their parents wealth/money. But I do always find it rough for rich kids to grow up and become poor adults. It must be quite the shock and displeasure. How does one go from living the super extreme and over indulged lifestyle to the “poor” and working life? It assume it comes with a lot of baggage and mental issues that Tori shows and displays. It is fascinating to watch her but I don’t envy her life.
Very nice synopsis! I always hope she’ll have a moment of clarity and stop her self-destructive choices. I think she fascinates me because she puts so much work into the facade, and if she put a fraction of that into really making her life meaningful, she’d probably really have a good life. I have been in some chaotic life circumstances, and you get in deeper and deeper and you really lose all perspective or maybe you were raised in it and so it all feels normal. Well, I’m still going to hope she has an epiphany and starts making that life we all deserve. It doesn’t require keeping storage facilities of high-end tchotchkes or crappy men.
For some strange reason I share the fascination in Tori and Dean while suffering deep shame at my voyeuristic tendencies. I have five children too and it can really do your head in, plus by her own admission while loves her children very much she finds actually parenting them really hard, so she has my empathy. As for Dean I don’t know what to think of him, he has done some really shady things. But together it seems like they are the perfect storm!
I think she is a sad sack. I feel bad for her at times-but she seems to bring a lot of pain on herself. If the reports are true, she has a terrible hoarding problem. She could possibly get herself out of her financial hole if she just got rid of her massive collection of storage units filled to the brim. (Again, if reports are true). She strikes me as an empty soul who fills herself up with material things and insane overspending. She would be wise to invest in some therapy, kick Dean to the curb, and really try to patch things up with mom.
Oh the containers are true , it was one of the story lines of her show ! She was paying thousands a month on storage rentals .
Hi Aimee… but by the end of that particular series – if I remember correctly, she was trying to sell some of the storage stuff on EBay or some little shop – or something? Maybe TT can tickle the memory on that one.. but I’m certain something like that was happening because I remember Dean being his regular mean-self to her when she sitting at the family computer putting things on EBay… or so my memory serves me….
She was definitely selling some (if not all) of the antiques in her store, InvenTORI (which has since closed). I enquired about some really cute candelabras! She wanted US$3,000 for them though – no thanks.
Count me in as strangely fascinated by Tori and Dean, too.
Didn’t Tori’s mother build some bigger than big mansion that took years and years to finish, was it ever finished? That family had more money then they knew what to do with. That kind of money is isolating unless you have a plan. I’m not talking about cloning dog plans, they had money to really help a lot of people and still live very high on the hog.
Tori having the storage units is telling. The number of children she’s had during life crisis’, telling. Estranged from her family, telling.
I agree, she needs her mother and they need to get their butts into therapy together. Tori seems to be screaming out to her mom for help. I think they both need help.
Candy was building a $35 million penthouse in the sky (apartment) which was so big it had its own pool.
Candy has said on record that she does help Tori with money for schooling, food and rent; she’s also been pictured at the kids’ various birthday parties, and threw a huge baby shower for Tori’s youngest child.
She is the quintessential Poor Little Rich Girl. I don’t really understand how her father could have left her with so little money and so few tools to deal with life. More recently it seems as if her mom was paying for things.
Such a sad story. I didn’t know about the buying/hoarding. I had read that she was always in debt, but I didn’t realize the extent of the spending problem.
Hope she dumps Dean.
Dean is going to have to dump her, she has some sort of obsession. All of the babies make me suspicious. One oops maybe but knowing she us broke and overwhelmed, she should have had her tubes tied. She is using the kids as chains for Dean. He isn’t the kind of stand up guy that would stay for the kids and forget the child support. I would bet that Candy helps Tori with a sum of money that most of us earn in a year. (If you are rolling in it, God Bless You)
Dean needs to leave, Tori needs to stand on her own two feet. Maybe if she tries, Candy would be more generous. Maybe Candy wouldn’t have to be so generous.
I totally understand why Papa Spelling didn’t leave his $$ to the kids. First, he provided a living for them, especially Tori, that could have lasted a lifetime. What a plum job he gave Tori. Second, $800k is nothing to sneeze at. I could live on that, even in LA. So he says, learn to suppirt yourselve, Here is your seed money. Her brother understood. Why is this so hard for her?
She just buys tons of random shit. She is trying to fill a hole.
Absolutely. i think all those kids is another attempt to fill that hole too.
Tamara, firstly – I just want to say how much I enjoy your blog. I visit often but rarely post and just wanted to take this opportunity to tell you and this community how much I love reading all the posts and comments.
Next … I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for Tori. I really enjoyed the first few seasons of her reality shows, from ‘Inn Love’ onwards. I’ve never liked Dean but I do like Tori and think she has a really big heart. She has a couple of really good friends who have always had her back so that alone surely speaks volumes? On the subject of friends though, we never hear mention of Amy or Susanne from when she was doing ‘Inn Love’ … maybe they were just friends for (the) show.
$800k sounds like a lot of money to the average person, but when you’ve grown up in luxury it’s probably not a lot. Lots of people no doubt have the opinion that it should have been invested wisely, but I’d argue that maybe she did think she was investing wisely by using it to buy the lease of that bed and breakfast, and accompanying reality show, which then led onto other things? It’s just a shame the other things didn’t have longevity.
I can’t for the life of me understand why she ever sold the first home she and Dean bought (back in LA, after ‘Inn Love’). That home was absolutely stunning and every single one after that has been awful. She apparently lost a lot of money in real estate transactions so maybe she was flipping all wrong … or the timing was wrong … whatever the case, she said she lost money due to bad real estate decisions and then Candy ended up having to buy them a house in Malibu (which looked like a dump), which they ended up selling? Such craziness.
I think Tori found it very difficult to adjust to having no money and thought showbiz doors would continue to open for her, and obviously they haven’t. Having all those kids costs a lot of money, and I’ve seen Patti, the “baby nurse” photographed with them just recently, so obviously they’re paying her too. I think she’s now in such a deep rut that she can see no way out. I think Dean is manipulative and lazy, and Tori feels backed into a corner.
Every time news articles are published about her the comments make mention of all the stuff she has in storage. I doubt she still has all that stuff. She tried to sell a lot through her store, InvenTori (closed a while back), including all the antiques she said at one stage she couldn’t part with.
I’m sure she is out there hustling, trying to get work … her many sponsored Instagram posts are surely evidence of that? She has apparently been seen accompanying Finn to child auditions too.
I really hope she’s okay. I think Candy is supportive in that she ensures the children are fed, schooled and have a roof over their heads, and seems to have a reasonable relationship with Tori now, too. I hope her friends are rallying around her … she’s good friends with Jennie Garth, who’s also having relationship issues with her new husband, so that’s at least one person who will understand how she’s feeling. (I seriously believe Dean is the main problem in Tori’s life so am going to flat-out assume he’s at the root of all these issues).
I wish for peace and contentment for Tori … I don’t know how she does it. I’m pleased she – or someone – disabled comments on her website as the posts on there were absolutely vile. I can’t believe people can be so mean.
Ugh, Dean. What a horrible man he is. Just awful. I don’t care that I sound mean because I think he is a good-for-nothing bum! I’ll never forget how – on one of their shows – he kept pestering her for sex when she’d just given birth. Vile creature.
Sorry for the novel! On that note, it’s 4:36pm on Friday where I am, so I’m off to pour a glass of wine! 🙂
PS: Since selling that Malibu house they’ve been renters. So where on earth is all the money? Even if they were terrible flippers and big spenders, surely they’d have just a little bit stashed somewhere?
I am positive that is why her mother rents the houses for them , she bought them one and they sold it , so that money was wasted , this way renting is not giving them a way to piss it all away . I liked Tori for awhile , but at the end of the day when your creeping to the age of 50 then you should be responsible for your shit ! Although the Deaner is a shit ( this proven by leaving his first wife 3 weeks before the adoption of their second child , and skipping out on child support payments for yrs ) Tori is to blame for a lot of their trouble and seems to get sympathy from everyone .
They bought and sold several houses, but I don’t think they were flippers (buying fixer uppers). They just changed their minds , and that is a big money sink! You lose a lot of money closing on houses and paying realtor fees.
Usually realtors say that you shouldn’t buy a house if you expect to move in less than 5 years.
She gets her hoarding problem from her mother. If anyone watched the show that was on when Candy was moving out of the mansion, it showed all of the crap she had collected over the years, even Christmas decorations from Target. I’ve never seen so much stuff owned by one person, except for Gloria Vanderbilt, who is a big hoarder,as well.
I remember Candi’s temperature controlled, video cameras over entire warehouse, numbered and labeled
piles of nice stuff. She was concerned someone might touch her things.
Her new penthouse build was a show of its own. Candis showed the selling of her mansion with a tour of it. She had a marvelous gift wrapping room. Candis new penthouse she chose expensive colored stone granite marble IDK – for almost every room. Wasn’t a fan of most of it.
Tori does have a spending problem which I believe is the cause of most of her problems and then there is Dean.
She has owned several nice homes and was forced out guessing because of spending.
I did not watch the last reality show with all the crying and screaming. Possibly it was fake but the out come was the same. Embarrassed herself and her children.
Dean having sex with someone else while married to her is exactly what she did with Dean, so what Karma bit Tori’s ass and she cried. LOL
No pity for a overspender that has put her children in a mess repeatedly. Once okay but continually?
Oops reread my comment, I sound like such a bitch.
I usually feel a certain sadness and hope when hearing about Tori.
Remember when Candi showed up at Hatti’s 3rd birthday party with Tatum Oneal? I felt so bad for Tori.
I’d be isolated and emotionally bankrupt with 5 children without a strong partner. Tori seemed to be a great Mom in her daily dealings with her family.
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Thanks for this Tamara. I feel like Dean is gaslighting Tori.
I concur 🙁
Does anybody besides me remember that Dean was married when he and Tori got together? Because I do remember, I find it hard to sympathize with her. Most marriages that result from an affair do not work out long-term.
WAIT! Dean was married when he got with Tori????? Well think god Tori was single and ready to mingle. I mean could you imagine if she were practically a newlywed when they met?
Someone should write a well researched article with a timeline of events!
LMAO
Does anyone remember when Tori went on TV and publicly stated she could give Dean kids and Mary Jo couldn’t right after the two of them started to have a affair . That was so low .
I do remember that! She said its nice to have a younger wife because she can give you kids. I thought that was an incrediably vicious, smug parting shot at a woman who had just lost her husband, and family broken up, to his lover. Wow! I think thats the kind of entitled behaviour thats guranteed a future ass whooping from karma.
HA!
LOL
Ironically, her brother Randy is a life coach in Oregon.
I’ve watched Tori since she was a young girl, viewed her in Lifetime movies, and watched her reality shows, and I think she’s actually a pretty good actress. The biggest mistake she ever made was in hooking up with Dean, especially since they were both married and he was adopting another child with his wife. She may have been unhappily married to her first husband, but she definitely didn’t trade up. Dean McDermott said after sleeping with her immediately that she was his soul mate? I wonder if the promise of a lot of that Spelling money eventually coming to her was an incentive for him to say that? When Tori divorced her first husband and then married Dean, Aaron Spelling was still alive and she was estranged from her mom. Aaron died a little over a month after Dean and Tori married. I think everyone was surprised that she was “only” left $800,000 – I’m sure they thought there was going to be a lot more. Despite growing up with such wealth, I think Tori felt somewhat unloved by her mother. Her dad adored her, but could see the writing on the wall if he left her a fortune, especially after she hooked up with Dean. Add to that the fact that she hadn’t been taught any basic life skills to survive. All she had ever seen was conspicuous consumption from her parents, especially her mom, and didn’t have a clue how to live within what we would call normal boundaries. $800,000 sounds like a lot, but it’s really not when you’re used to having everything you want. You couldn’t even buy a home in a good part of L.A. with that.
When Dean cheated on her, and I do believe he did, the anguish she went through was almost unbearable. I don’t think any of that was faked, and I don’t think he was faking either with all his boo-hooing, suicide threats, and failure to be honest in therapy sessions. He came off as a weak, manipulative man during that whole fiasco, and I think the love Tori genuinely had for him made her feel sorry for him. I also believe she was trying to create a “real” family when she had so many children, but you can’t do that alone.
I read elsewhere that Dean had left their home for a few days for a “cooling off” period from the stress in the marriage. She wasn’t expecting him home when he entered their house. It doesn’t sound like things are going well for them, and that makes me sad for Tori. Him, I could care less about. When you get to the point that your marriage results in police being called for a 51/50 check, it’s time to really sit down and evaluate how to go forward. If past experience is any indicator though, she’ll forgive him for whatever, and this will go on.
Best case scenario, she leaves him, her mom sets her and the kids up somewhere affordable, and she slowly heals.
Good luck, Tori. Even though people look at you as the spoiled, immature rich kid, I think, in many ways, you weren’t done any favors.
Totally agree with every word, English Rose. I really feel for Tori and I wish so badly that Dean would grow a pair and behave like a husband and father should. I don’t look at Tori as spoiled and immature – I believe at one time she could’ve turned out that way but she sure didn’t. I wish she had a better relationship with her Mother, I can’t imagine her Mother’s heartbreak and anguish especially over her grandchildren. **sigh**
HE didn’t say they were soul mates. SHE said it after sleeping with him. Re-read the article.
I think her breakdown was the result of her realization that Dean is never going to get a job and provide for his family. With court judgements, you can make monthly payments , even if they are small . The court expects you to have some type of job even if it’s working at Target. Tori needs to take control and handle this because Dean never will.
Emily Goodhand was never found to be in existence so I believe as do many others that that was a fake story line for their show . No record of her anywhere . Tori made Dean quit his hosting gig of Chopped Canada , because she was so jealous he would sleep with someone while away . I think him quitting had to hurt his reputation as a reliable employe . The saying you loose them how you get them is true for the most part .
The official wording of Dean’s departure from Chopped Canada was that “he was leaving after his second season.” It may have been a mutual parting but I don’t think Chopped Canada was sad to see him go.
I remember seeing a picture recently of Tori, Dean, and the kids at Target. She looked wild-eyed to me. Like, something behind her eyes was off. She looked disheveled & frumpy, with her hair all bleach-fried and tangled. She was trying on some Target clothes and loading them in her cart. I felt so SAD for her. Like, she is a SPELLING! Why is she loading up $12 polyester pants in a red shopping cart, surrounded by children, and a man who clearly struggles about being motivated for anything??? It was uncomfortable to watch. I really hope she gets the help she needs. Her children need their momma.
I just noticed that the related posts under this one take you to recaps of True Tori. I forgot I recapped that.
He was coming home after several days away. She may have been piching a rollicking good hissy.
I believe that is temporary insanity which justifies any crime against the person who caused it.
I don’t understand why people keep acting like TORI did something wrong when DEAN is is mugging for the cameras and laughing with the cops. If his wife was having a mental problem, would that not be a solemn moment? AND WHO WAS WITH THE ENTIRE TRIBE OF CHILDREN?
I dont think she did anything at all wrong. I am just saying if she was screaming at him, it’s justifiable. He’s lucky he didn’t marry a former coworker of mine who had a set f cast iron skillets and knows how to use them.
Since violence is not the answer, put his ass on the curb. 🎶to the left, to the left, everything you own is in a box to the left.
Except that getting pregnant thing over and over. She knows how to stop that and on some level she knows it won’t keep him in line
I remember reading that her Mother gave her a million dollars after having each child. I wonder if that is her incentive.
Her mother created a million dollar trust for Liam when he was born. I never heard if she did that for all of her grandchildren. The money wasn’t given to Tori
I read recently where she said she felt like this latest baby was like a rebirth to her and Dean’s relationship(paraphrased). That’s a lot to put on a kids shoulders. There was always something just sleazy about Dean, I never could understand her attraction/obsession with him. He definitely puts proof to the old saying that “if they’ll do it with you, they’ll do it to you”. Although the same can’t be said of her. She may have left the first husband, but nothing he does seems to make her see the light. I think her mother, under the circumstances has tried to be there and help her. Agree with rest of you saying that the best thing Tori could do would be to kick him to the curb and move in with Candi. Would be great tv. Tho not sure Candi could stand that much chaos in what seems to be a very orderly world! She might be the one to end up being 5150’d with 5 possibly 6 children running roughshod in beautiful penthouse palace! That would certainly do it for me
T it’s moments like these where I want to see you as a guest reporter on WW! Let’s make it happen!!!
I realize Tori is adult, but she was raised with immense wealth and privilege and probably not taught a lot of real life coping s!ills. Would it kill Candy to put her on a monthly allowance? It’s not like Candy would miss it and it would make life for those kids so much better.
I agree. I think that is what her father could have done in his will – created a trust that provided her with a regular income.
Several years ago Candy said she wanted to pay the children’s school tuition but Tori wouldn’t tell her where they were enrolled! I know they have made up since then and that Candy does pay the school tuition among other things, but Tori acting that way puts another wrinkle in the story….like maybe she won’t accept money with conditions attached? Won’t accept money earmarked for certain things.