Tori Spelling and Mom Candy Spelling’s Ups and Downs Over the Years
usmagazine.comTo say Candy and Tori Spelling have a complicated relationship would be an understatement.The Beverly Hills, 90210 star’s ups and downs with her mother were exposed when her father, Aaron Spelling, died in 2006, less than one year after Tori came under fire for having an affair with Dean McDermott. (She was married to Charlie Shahnaian when she met McDermott on set in 2005, while the actor was married to Mary Jo Eustace.) Tori, who only inherited $800,000 of Aaron’s reported $500 million, had seen the legendary TV producer for the first time in nine months weeks before his passing, she wrote in her 2008 memoir, as her family struggled with her decision to elope with McDermott.
Tori also claimed that she learned about her dad’s death via an email from a family friend.Candy later blamed the actress for Aaron’s death in a radio interview.“My daughter one day decided that she wasn’t speaking to my husband, myself and my son, and that’s how it’s continued for the last, oh gosh, four or five years,” Candy told 94.7 WMAS-FM’s Kellogg Krew in 2009. “And it was sad.
That’s what killed my husband, actually. He just didn’t want to live after that. He [had] just done everything he could possibly do for his daughter, and she wanted no part of him once he couldn’t do anything for her.”Earlier that year, Candy had released an open letter to her daughter, claiming she hadn’t met Tori’s eldest daughter, Stella, who was born in 2008. (Tori and McDermott eventually welcomed five kids: Liam, born in 2007, Stella, Hattie born in 2011, Beau born in 2017, and Finn born in 2012.)“You haven’t responded to my e-mails, phone calls and text messages.
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