Tori Spelling he meditates Shannen DohertyHis death almost two years after his death – which shows why it affected him differently than when he was grieving the loss of his father, Aaron Spelling.
“I had a very emotional … outside when Shan passed my dad,” Tori, 53, said during the Tuesday, June 30, episode of the “Inside of You With Michael Rosenbaum” podcast.
Tori’s father, a former Hollywood legend, died in June 2006 at the age of 83. Doherty, who was Tori’s bodyguard Beverly Hills, 90210 – who was produced by Aaron’s boss – was 53 when she died in July 2024 following a battle with breast cancer.
When asked why she wasn’t sad when her father died, Tori explained that she was “young” at the time. “I mean it was 20 years ago,” he said.
“I think I had all these emotions. I didn’t know how to deal with my emotions so in my mind I was like, just keep going,” Tori recalled of Aaron’s passing.
I Mystery Girls The student commented that her father was “everything to me” and was a complete “daddy’s girl”, so she tried not to let the grief stop her.
“I mean, he’s still my hero and I think about him every day of my life,” Tori said of her Emmy-winning father.
Aaron Spelling and Tori Spelling.
Diane Freed/Getty ImagesTori added that there Beverly Hills, 90210 a castmate Luke Perry died in March 2019 at the age of 52 following a stroke, he was not ready to have external emotions.
“I was in my go-go, go-go mode. I was like, inside, ‘Go ahead, you’ve got to go on,'” he recalled, adding that he put up a “stiff front” when Perry passed.
Tori revealed that “it wasn’t until Shan walked by that I was like, ‘Oh my god, I can’t stop crying.’ And this is not for me. “
Although Tori says she grew up “thinking crying was a sign of weakness,” Doherty’s death hit her like a ton of bricks.
“It was this thing — and maybe it’s because we get older and you start thinking about your death and what’s going to happen — and it’s like, ‘Wait, friends my age are passing and this could happen.’ That was difficult,” explained the mother of five children.
Tori became friends with both Perry and Doherty on the set of Beverly Hills, 90210which started in 1990 to 2000.
Gabrielle Carteris, Tori Spelling, Brian Austin Green, Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth and Ian Ziering.
Brian Bowen Smith/Fox/Everett CollectionThe trio played high school friends, Donna Martin, Dylan McKay and Brenda Walsh, respectively, alongside each other. Jennie Garth, Jason Priestley, Ian Ziering, Brian Austin Green again Gabrielle Carteriswhich featured Kelly Taylor, Brandon Walsh, Steve Sanders, David Silver and Andrea Zuckerman, in the series.
During the podcast, Tori recalled her friendships changing with the cast as they grew up and worked on different projects. That was the case between him and Doherty, who was fired from the hit teen show after season 4. (Doherty later worked with Tori’s father again You are enchanted from 1998 to 2001.)
Tori recalls: “Shannen and I were best friends but we weren’t.
Tori Spelling continues to remember Shannen Doherty in the days following her death. “We laughed until the end,” Spelling, 51, wrote on her Instagram Story on Tuesday, July 16. “Full on guttural soul laughs.” Alongside the message, Spelling shared a throwback photo of the pair laughing and another where Doherty grabbed […]
Fortunately, as adults, the actors reunited at fan conferences and renewed their friendship before he passed.
“And that meant a lot to me and to him,” Tori said.
Tori noted that she attended the one-year anniversary of Doherty’s death, which brought back all the “memories and tears.”
“That was great. I got to see his mom again and I got to see his friends,” Tori added.
