Tori Spelling is offering an unfiltered look at the moment she told her soon-to-be ex-husband Dean McDermott about their divorce. Tori took an unconventional route with her approach, telling Dean of their divorce while filming for her podcast. The former couple’s relationship has taken a lot of twists and turns in the last few years, from constant divorce rumors to their split actually happening. Dean even ended up sharing the details of all of the things that had gone wrong with their marriage in a tell-all interview. For the most part, Tori has remained quiet, but it looks like that may be changing.
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Tori let people hear her break the news to Dean in real time.
On the debut episode of her podcast Misspelling, Tori let her listeners hear the moment she told Dean that she had officially filed for divorce, nine months after they actually split. She went back and forth for a minute about the call, before realizing that she caught him at a bad time, saying "Oh, s—. He’s at work right now. This sucks."
She apologized, saying that she "hate[d] to do this to" him while he was "in the middle of going to work and everything."
She wanted to make sure he heard from her.
She continued, telling her estranged husband, "They’ve done it. It’s the formality. It’s just the one sheet you check off, and next you’ll have to sign it."
Tori respectfully didn’t air Dean’s side of the conversation, but she then asked him if he had a lawyer. She didn’t reveal what he said next, but her response was telling. "Wait, it’s gonna be spun what way? That I’ve had enough of you? What? What do you mean?"
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Tori believes she had the right to file.
"In all honesty after this whole journey, if it’s about … who files first, the other person is wrong, I feel like I deserve to file first then," Tori said, arguing about who had the right to file for divorce first.
"You basically put it out there with Daily Mail and said everything you’ve done to me over the years, so I think it makes perfect sense that it followed up that I would file," she said before ending the call with a "Love you."
Tori didn't hold her feelings back, either.
Once the conversation was over, Tori began to cry, telling her podcast team that she "never felt more alone in 50 years," even though she was in a room surrounded by people, recording her podcast. Although she didn’t share exactly what Dean said on the phone, she did say that he said the news was "great."
Apparently Dean was going to file first.
He said "'I have a lawyer. I was gonna do this, but cool, yeah, saves me $500,'" she revealed.
The episode dropped two days after the news of their divorce first became public, nine months after Dean announced their split in a since-deleted Instagram post.
It can't be easy, but at least they're both able to start moving on.
