Former Beverly Hills, 90210 co-stars Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling got to the root of their falling out on Green’s Oldish podcast and it seems, to them, that another set of former co-stars — and real-life exes — are to blame!
Green and Spelling, both 51, revealed that they stopped speaking after the 2000 finale of the hit Fox drama, played love interests David and Donna for 10 seasons. Green and Spelling also briefly dated in real life at the beginning of the show’s run.
“I remember our last conversation and the last thing we said to each other before those 18 years. I was crying,” Spelling recalled on the podcast, joining Green and his co-host, her younger brother, Randy Spelling. “I remember crying that we were going to lose touch because we were so close. It was almost like going through a divorce or something.”
Green recalled trying to maintain a friendship with Spelling and her then-boyfriend Vincent Young, who played Noah on the show. “What I remember is going by Vincent’s house to see you multiple days after we wrapped and trying to keep a connection going,” Green said. “But it got to the point where I just never got that from you.”
“And then I remember being at the 90210 DVD release party and you were married to Dean,” Green added, referring to Spelling’s now-estranged husband Dean McDermott. “I was with [now-ex-wife] Megan [Fox] when we were still just dating — you guys got there and you never said hello to me once. I just kept missing you guys and then you were gone.”
He says that these interactions made him give up on their friendship. “It was just this thing of like, ‘She just doesn’t want to be my friend.’ I genuinely felt that way,” he admitted. “I tried to visit you and I would call you. When that wasn’t reciprocated and so I gave up. I didn’t know what was going on in your life.”
Spelling noted that her “complicated relationship” with Young, who she dated from 1999 until 2001, got in the way of her friendship with Green.
“On my part, I lost myself in that relationship again as I had done previously in relationships,” Spelling recalled. “That relationship was not a good relationship for me and toward the end I got wrapped up and things weren’t good.”
The actress also stated that Green’s then-girlfriend, and fellow 90210 star, Vanessa Marcil impacted the falling out too.
“That relationship was frustrating to see from a friend’s perspective who loves someone so much. To see what is going on and see how your friend is treated and not be OK with it,” Spelling said. “But also knowing that you can’t really say anything because the person has to go through their own experience and go on their journey.”
She noted that she isn’t the type of friend to “blatantly stand up and say [I] don’t like someone.”
Green and Marcil dated from 1999 to 2003 after she joined the cast as Gina for the show’s final two seasons. Their son, Kassius, was born in 2002. In the years since their split, the exes have made conflicting allegations about the other’s involvement in their son’s life and lawsuits involving custody and child support.
“I shied away from you because you weren’t a fan of [my] relationship [with Vincent]. You had a good working relationship with Vincent but I don’t think you felt like our personal relationship was something that was correct for me,” Spelling continued. “My process was different and I would shy away from those that would really fight for me. I never stopped thinking about you and never stopped wanting to reach out and reconnect.”
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