Tori Spelling and Brian Austin Green are looking back at their nearly two decades-long estrangement.
Tori and Brian, both 51, played love interests Donna Martin and David Silver on the hit ’90s drama Beverly Hills, 90210, but when the show ended in 2000, the two had a major falling out, which resulted in them not talking for 18 years.
While Tori appeared on Brian‘s Oldish podcast – which he co-hosts with fiancée Sharna Burgess and Tori‘s brother Randy Spelling – the two revisited their estrangement, which Tori attributed to her relationship with fellow co-star Vincent Young.
Keep reading to find out more…“You and I didn’t speak for a long time,” Brian pointed out. “It was about 18 years.”
“It was almost like going through a divorce or something,” Tori added.
“What I experienced was I remember going by Vincent’s house to see you multiple days after we had wrapped and really trying to keep a connection going,” Brian recalled, noting that his relationship with Tori “got to the point where I just never got that from you.”
Years later, Tori, who was married to then-husband Dean McDermott, and Brian, who was with then-girlfriend Megan Fox, ran into each other at a Beverly Hills, 90210 DVD release party, but Brian told Tori, “you never said hello to me once.”
“I just kept missing you guys, and then you were gone for the night,” Brian shared. “So it was just this thing of like, ‘Oh my God, she does not want to be my friend anymore.’ When that wasn’t reciprocated, you just kind of give up and assume like, ‘Okay, well, maybe something’s going on, and she needs time.’ I don’t know what was going on in your life.”
Tori said that her falling out with Brian was because of relationship with Vincent, whom she dated from 1999 to 2001, noting that while Vincent was a “great guy,” it was a “complicated relationship.”
“I lost myself in that relationship, as I had done previously in relationships and then went on to do in [future] relationships,” Tori said. “That relationship was not a good relationship for me…not that he necessarily did anything wrong. It’s just, I wish I had valued myself more to be like, ‘Okay, you’re showing up in a certain way. If the other person isn’t showing up in the same way, get out of the relationship.’ And that’s all it is. Vince and I have a great relationship to this day.”
Tori went on to say that Brian‘s relationship with fellow costar Vanessa Marcil, whom he dated from 199 to 2003, further complicated their friendship.
She said that Brian‘s relationship with Vanessa “was frustrating to see from a friend’s perspective that loves someone so much,” adding that seeing “how your friend is treated and not feel okay with it, but knowing that you can’t really say anything because the person has to go through their own experience and journey.”
Tori and Brian were able to rekindle their friendship and are now close again.
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