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Tori Targets Mom: Dad Didn't Have to Die So Soon
Tori Spelling by Jim Spellman/ WireImage.com
Tori Spelling might be waist-deep into her own motherhood, but she's still hurling some nastiness her mom's way. In her new memoir, Stori Telling, Spelling claims that her mom's relationship with a male family friend led to an untimely death for her ill father, producer Aaron Spelling.
According to the New York Daily News, Spelling, who is estranged from her mom, Candy, says, "I don't think my father had to die so soon. [Candy's] relationship with Mark was disturbing, and I thought it had taken a toll on my father when his health was in jeopardy."
Spelling attacks her mother's approach not only to marriage but to motherhood, as well: "I wrote an e-mail [to Candy] saying... you should never have been the wife to a man so generous and loving," Spelling writes. "You never deserved him. You never deserved to have children like me and Randy. The greatest lesson you taught me is how not to be a mother and a wife."
Harsh words, especially after all these years. Do you think Tori's public rant is her right? Or should she pipe down and let it go already? — Anna Dimond
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Mar 12, 2008 7:17 PM
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Tori is clearly not bright enough to be a doctor so she should shut the you know what up. And she is right no one deserves to have a child like her. If she was my daughter I don't know what I would do.
Not only is she stupid, she is not one to preach about family values. Did she not leave one husband to steal another?
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Mar 12, 2008 8:29 PM
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Maybe it was the pressure he felt to cast you or your equally talentless brother in every project that killed him too soon.
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Mar 12, 2008 8:52 PM
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I really can't stand when celebrities drag their feuds into the public eye, and in this case, it's especially egregious. As has been said, she is hardly one to talk about how to be a wife, and if her mom is less than perfect, she's certainly nobody's shining example of a daughter, either. Go away, Tori.
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Mar 12, 2008 10:12 PM
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I say...spill. Her mom looked like a witch anyway. Take it to the street Tori.
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Mar 12, 2008 11:42 PM
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I just recently started watching INN Love with Tori and I liked it. But any problems she has with her family should be kept private. It sounds like she is upset she did not get millions from her dad and she blames her mother
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Mar 13, 2008 7:59 AM
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I agree that her family problems sould stay private. I know I'm probably one of the few, but I actually really like Tori now. I enjoyed watching Inn Love, and her and Dean seem very happy and in love. Yes, the way they got together wasn't great, but can we stop saying that she stole someone else's husband? If he didn't want to be "stolen", he wouldn't have left his life. Things happen and sometimes not in the best way. Either way, she probably shouldn't have put so much about her mother out there.
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Mar 13, 2008 8:52 AM
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Hello pot. Meet kettle. I think unless you're a saint, you shouldn't slam anyone in public. Especially someone who did the same thing you did to an extent.
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Mar 13, 2008 9:43 AM
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Talk about bitter. Didn't a lot of the problems start when she made fun of her mom in a show? That was before her dad got really sick. And maybe seeing how she behaved after that big wedding they threw, didn't help her father's condition. Great to judge her mom and yet she jumps in bed with a guy BEFORE working out her problems with her husband. At least give the guy a heads up. Even if her mom had some relationship with this guy - maybe it's because she was emotionally worn out worrying about her husband and her tramp daughter. Everyone deserves a shoulder.
Grow up Tori. Leave your mom alone and get on with your life. It's tacky and will only help your career being stunt casting in the future. Oh and those Lifetime movies you put on. Spare us more of those.
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Mar 13, 2008 9:44 AM
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I thought they made Up? When she had the baby? Is it that she still got no money and now all bets are off?Im curious about her talking about 800 thousand inheritence was alot to other people but to her whose father was worth 500 million it was worth crying over. Maybe he was trying to teach her a lesson? Maybe he chose to honor his partner and not his adult daughter and son? Maybe he thought having to spend a million dollars on your first wedding was enough. Regardless she was right about one thing. He taught her to work. She doesn't stop hustleing. But thats what you are supossed to do TORI. Maybe thats how your father ammassed that 500 million. He busted his ass.
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Mar 13, 2008 9:45 AM
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What a classy girl.
/sarcasm
Seriously though, WHY does she think people outside her family need to know about this?
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Mar 13, 2008 9:53 AM
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What I appreciate is her modesty.
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Mar 13, 2008 10:46 AM
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why do so many people today feel the need to tell everyone their business and constantly air their dirty laundry?! if she's mad at her mom, fine. not for me to judge or to decide if it's justified. WHY does she feel the need to publicize her family woes? sickening!
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Mar 13, 2008 1:10 PM
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I have to admit that I never watched 90210 when it was on but did Netflix season 6 (for Emma Caulfield) and I thought Tori was pretty much a no-talent who obviously owed her part to her father. Then I watched So Notorious and I just loved her. She has a nice sense of humor and was not afraid to make fun of herself (relentlessly). I admire public figures who do not take themselves so seriously and are willing to laugh at themselves. In one of the intervies on the DVD, she comes across as a smart young woman who is finally figuring out where she fits. As far as airing her dirty laundry, well I won't be reading the book (good advice for all you who seem so full of anger about this girl) but I also will not judge her. I don't know the details of hert life and feel unqualified to make grand pronouncements about her relationship with her mother, a reticence that most of you do do not share. If her mother is offended, let her write her own book.
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Mar 13, 2008 1:13 PM
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If her mother is offended, let her write her own book.
Or call her on the phone. Or visit her in person. The way normal families communicate when they have issues with each other.
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Mar 13, 2008 1:19 PM
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