Dr. Oz: Tori Spelling & Dean McDermott Marriage
Dr. Oz interviewed Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott about their marriage in separate interviews on the show. After finishing talking to Dean McDermott about his drinking, substance abuse, and infidelity, then it was onto Tori Spelling’s side of the story. Their marital issues have been on display on their reality show True Tori.
Dr. Oz: Tori Spelling Emotional Stress
Tori Spelling was actually supposed to be on the show a month ago, but she got sick and had to go to the hospital for bronchitis. Tori Spelling said she doesn’t deal with stress well and so when she was stressed out, she would repress it. This would cause her to become sick with sinus issues and migraines.
Dr. Oz: Tori Spelling Being Public About Marital Issues
Dr. Oz talked to Tori Spelling about her marital issues with her husband Dean McDermott and how the stress has been affecting her emotional health. (Brad Camembert / Shutterstock.com)
Tori Spelling said it originally wasn’t a choice to be public about her marital issues. But she had a personal connection with her fans over the years, so she made the decision to tell her story rather than lie.
Dr. Oz: Tori Spelling On Her Children
Dr. Oz wondered if Tori Spelling worried about her four kids being exposed to their marital issues because of Tori and Dean being public about it on their reality show. Tori said they’re still very young. Her children are 7, 6, 3, and 2. The crew for the reality show are people they’ve known their whole lives. The crew is two cameramen, one sound guy, one producer, and one director. So it’s very small and she said the kids have a good time with them.
Dr. Oz: Tori Spelling Dean McDermott Separate Interviews
Dr. Oz asked Tori Spelling why she and Dean McDermott wanted to have separate interviews. Tori Spelling said she wanted her own time and advice from Dr. Oz. She also said she felt like this is the first time she’s talked about what she’s been through this year for the second season of True Tori.
Dr. Oz: Tori Spelling Fighting For Her Marriage
Tori Spelling said that she believes her marriage was worth fighting for. She said she felt like their marriage was getting stronger and stronger. She wished he hadn’t had an affair and that it didn’t take something like that to get them closer. But she did like the fact that her marriage was stronger now.
Dr. Oz: Tori Spelling Trust Issues
Dr. Oz wondered whether Tori Spelling was dealing with her trust issues. Tori said that she went into the show thinking that she had to process her trust issues with Dean McDermott, but she found out that she had a bigger issue from her childhood she had to deal with. She had to gain self-confidence and fix that before she could work on her marriage.
Dr. Oz: Tori Spelling & Dean McDermott Infidelity
Dr. Oz said that if a man cheats, it’s a man lacking his own self-esteem. Tori Spelling said that’s what Dean McDermott said about it and she believed. She didn’t feel it was her fault.
Dr. Oz: Tori Spelling Coming Back from Rock Bottom
Dr. Oz wondered if she’d hit rock bottom. She said for a while, she was still doing everything she normally would do: taking care of four kids, running her businesses, and acting. But inside, she felt terrible. This show has been cathartic for her to get all of that out. But rock bottom for her was being in the hospital for two weeks and coming back to realize her kids weren’t fazed by it. They were used to her being sick.
So she wanted to make a change in her life by prioritizing herself. She puts others before herself. She also said they’re working on improving their marriage. Tori has asked Dean to step up and take care of himself and their family and she believed he really was bettering himself.
Dr. Oz said that he thought doing reality shows was magnifying all of Tori and Dean’s problems and hurting them. He also said he thought it was great Tori and Dean were working on their issues.
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