Miss Spelling The Beans

From the celebrity who got plastered at a Spelling party, to the time her dad tried to set her up with a ‘nerd,’ to the friend with sticky-fingers she caught red-handed! Get ready for our new series of Tori sTORIes! 

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Misspelling with tory spelling an iHeartRadio podcast. So you all know,
I am a big fan of storytelling. That's sto r I.
I'm a bigger fan of using my name to brand myself.

(00:30):
It's the kif that keeps on giving. Don't worry. I
got like enough bullying in school. Like when I was young,
tell me a story toy that was from a teacher,
not even a kid. I thought it was like I
just wanted to be named Jennifer. Like growing up, I
was like, oh my gosh, and I had the great story,
like my name was Victoria. But my mom was like,

(00:53):
but I'm not on board with your name being Vicky,
so I want a nickname. And my godmother, Barbara Stanwick,
was like, you should call her toy like it. Hey,
this has like the beautiful Hollywood story here story again,
that's t o r I. But I can't help but

(01:15):
swap wise for eyes now it's just in my genes.
But yeah, when you're like eight years old and you know,
I'm like, I just want to be a Kate or Jennifer,
like I said, I want it. I want it so
desperately my name should be Jennifer. But yeah, it was Tory,

(01:36):
and people are always like, oh, it's a weird name,
laughing all the way to the bank. Now, mister Rhodes
in my fifth grade history teacher, Yeah, you're the one
to shame me anyway. Okay, So I've written many books.
My first book was called Storytelling, and I just I

(02:00):
love telling stories. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
My dad was an amazing storyteller, and I didn't think
I had a gift for it till I saw how
much joy it would bring, even friends at school telling
stories that I thought met nothing, like, just this is
what happened over the weekend, and they'd be laughing and
like And my attention to detail, I'm very focused on.

(02:23):
I have a photographic memory, so basically I see things
in terms of like a movie in my head. So
I could see things that happen in my stories and
I could tell you exactly, which was very helpful for
my co writer for my books because I could literally
set the stage and be like, Okay, this happened in
this place on this date. I'm very good with dates,

(02:45):
like don't mess with me with dates, like it's like yeah,
but I'd be like I was wearing this dress and
this color shoes, and this person was standing to my left.
And it's just very precise, which when you were conveying
your stories, really helps set the stage for the viewer

(03:07):
slash listener slash reader slash friend you're telling it to
at a cocktail party, just really visualizing the story. Anyway,
storytelling my first book, which went number one on the
New York Times bestseller list. Woo. I've written six books,
but that was my first. That was my first book,

(03:31):
and I had the best time writing it with And
I had a ghostwriter, Hillary Lifton, who has done all
my books, including my children's book with me. Because we
became fast friends and she was very collaborative. She quickly
found out that it wasn't just like sometimes. I found

(03:51):
out the world of ghostwriting very fascinating. It comes in
all shapes and forms, Like you can have a celebrity
and you literally have to create their voice while telling
their stories. But with me, she quickly found out. She's like,
I'm basically here to type out your stories to format it.

(04:12):
I'm terrible at formatting. I was like, I have always
stories go chapter one, chapter two, and just to kind
of steer your voice. And she's like, but your voice
is so evident, and that's one piece of advice I
always took with me. So I tell stories, and I

(04:32):
was like, okay, hello, I have a podcast crime, real Estate, Hello, Monopoly.
This would be like park Avenue. No way, they're different
now park Place, park Place. Yeah. So I'm going to
do a weekly edition of storytelling by Tori spelling that

(04:59):
is misspelling and for nasty. Okay, let's get into it. Listen,
puns are my life. There's two types of human brains.
You either think in terms of puns or you don't.
I can't help but thinking puns. So today here we go.
I am spelling the beans on a lot of juicy stories. Okay.

(05:25):
My producer Lorraine has graciously agreed to ask me questions,
and I said, go for it because I can edit
the book out of this. No, I'm just kidding. No,
I said go for it because what often happens, and
this happened every time I was writing one of my books,
is my writer would it was like she was a therapist.
It was so cathartic. But I would be like, I No,

(05:49):
I don't have a story about that, and she'd be
like okay, and she'd just be like asking me about
my life and it would trigger a memory that'd be like,
oh my god, I haven't thought about that story in
ten twenty years, and I would have a story. So
a lot of times I won't remember things, and if
you ask me in a certain way or ask something
around it, it will jog my memory. So here we go, Loraine.

(06:12):
Are you ready? Are you ready? That's the question. I
don't know. Yo, We're gonna go there? Okay, Oh god, okay,
ease me in, be gentle. It's my first time. Highly
doubt that. Okay.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
So we've done a lot of episodes about your fabulous
family parties, right, yes, okay, there must have been more
than one, but at least one celebrity who got wasted
at one of your shindigs in Beverly Hills, and I
want to know who.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Okay, So I could take this a variety various different directions.
Let's say we had very few parties at our house
pre mannor Baby Manor Manor Junior. He had some parties,
but not extensive amount at the Manor. The only huge

(07:05):
except aside from the Christmas Eve parties every year that
I've gotten into a little bit, the only huge party
was when my mom threw the one and only party
for Prince Charles when he came to America. It was
the one party he allowed someone to do for him,
and it was at our house. But my dad every
year had huge company parties, massive every actor, crew, producers, network. Yeah,

(07:35):
so those are the parties where they'd probably be some
little more wasted, I would say, I'm trying to remember.
There were a lot of them were like at a hotel,
like in the ballroom, but some of them were at
the iconic Chasins, which was a Hollywood staple, landmark restaurant

(08:01):
for like the biggest stars in the world. And I'm
talking all the way back to like Betty Davis, Joan Crawford,
like Dean Martin, my godfather, Barbara Stanwick, my godmother, Frank Sinatra,
like you know, like everyone went there, the rat Pack,
and then it just went on Jimmy Stewart and then
it went on through the decades until it closed downs.

(08:23):
Now Bristol Farms, Beverly Boulevard got its heartbreaking little known facts.
I'm a huge believer in chili. Uh. I don't get
my chili skills from a family recipe or a home
cooked meal. But there was a famous chili and you

(08:43):
can look it up that I was inspired to make
by Chasins, which was this huge iconic restaurant. They had
like shrimp towers and they had like the like the
meter d and the waiters were like in and almost
black tie red, like leather couches. People would dress up

(09:07):
when they came there, like you know where they're like
furst stoles. Sorry that was back then. Now they're foe
for stoles. Doesn't even wear a stole anymore. Should bring
it back. I love a good capelet. Anyway. They would
like really dress up and they would have like steak,

(09:27):
like all these cool steaks, and they had actually a
steak called the Steak Aarin that was my dad's. I'd
to get the recipe for that. Oh, we have to
make that one day. That was iconic. But they would
like you know, it was a whole performance. They would
you know, Cherry's jubilee and they would light it on
fire in front of you. It was like you went
out for like a Sunday family dinner and I was

(09:48):
wearing my finest Mary Jans let me just tell you,
and my fur caplet. Sorry, I was eight. I didn't
choose my clothes but in the Shirley Temple ringlets. But anyway, yeah,
so chili chili was one of their main things, which
is so random. That's like a comfort food and not
something you would see like at a high end restaurant.

(10:09):
But anyway, I digress. I think, you know what, I
don't know if she was wasted, but and we can
fact check this and see, my luck, she'll be like,
I've been sober for fifty years, Like how dare you
say that? But uh, I'll be canceled. But anyway, Judge

(10:30):
Judy and not wasted, but she was. I guess what
it was that really I took note of. And keep
in mind, my dad's company was a public traded company
in the later years, so he owned different film companies.
So there are you know, movie stars at at his

(10:53):
holiday parties. It went from Chasins to like the huge
hotel like you know Biltmore all his TV shows all
and it expanded to and I don't know exactly why,
but the network that Judge Judy was on was part
of Spelling was linked to it. So anyway, and I

(11:14):
guess I was just so shocked and like everyone was
getting up and giving speeches, and yeah, I was just
so shocked because everyone's like Judge Judy, Judge Judy. And
I was like what, I put down my cocktail for
a second. I'm like, let me pay attention. And I
looked to the stage and I was like, oh my god,
what a hot piece of ass. Like she was up there,

(11:37):
you guys in like this slinky little, like very body
con like dress and she was hot, af like gorgeous,
sexy and talking and was funny and kind of body.
I mean, she is, you know, she's definitely very firm.

(12:00):
But she was like cool, super cool. She was dancing,
really good dancer, super sexy. Wait, oh my god, dancing
with the stars. Should have judged Judy. Sad thing? Have
they done that? Anyway. I don't know if she'd had
a few cocktails, but you know, to the young brain,
I was like, oh my god, she's letting loose. She
must be drunk, but who knows. But I was super impressed.

(12:22):
She's got mad moves. You guys, Oh my god, you
know who used to always hit on me at those things?
Woo do you remember? Oh god, I shouldn't say this,
now you gotta say it. Ted McGinley oh, he was

(12:44):
on love Boat and then he was on Married with Children.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Revenge of the Nerds.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Revenge of the Nerds. Right, he was the hawkey of course,
that's what I knew him from. Oh my god, duh,
such a big Revenge of the Nerds fan. But I
gotta say, looking back on I'm I'm looking back on
a couple of them. I feel like my dad like
kind of asked him to court you court his daughter.

(13:12):
But what's our age difference? Like now, I'm like, wait,
hold on, how old is he? He's sixty six? That's
quite the difference. What wow. So definitely the first time
was like at this like Santa Barbara, like a charity
fundraiser or something. I went with my parents. I remember

(13:32):
we were all in like western gear or something, and
I think I was like eighteen, and my dad definitely
sat him with me, like next to me at my table,
and I feel like he asked me a dance and
he asked me. I don't know, I just or me.
That's a story. I told myself, like why would this

(13:54):
hunk rama? Like I was like, why would he ever
flirt with a girl like me? And so my dad
must have set this up. But who knows. Looking back,
I'm like, what do you mean? I was funny, I
was smart, like I was cute, Like why not me?
I feel like my dad was like, hey, pal, you

(14:17):
want to keep working date my daughter. No, I'm just kidding.
I'm just messing her anyhow. Oh my god, I always
wanted to date Gopher from the Love Boat. Oh it's
such a crush on him. At eight. Could have been
his wife. I would have been a politician's wife. Okay,
we all know you grew up with lots of stuff, right, Yes.

(14:38):
Did you ever have a friend come over and suddenly
something was missing? Uh?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, okay, let's talk about that.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
I'm not proud of this, but I am very trusting
and I opened my home. Are we talking like at
my mom's house? Because no, I mean she listen, back
in the day we have she would get the screeners
for the movies, which a lot of people in the
industry get now, but this is back like back in
the day, it was like a rarity in My dad

(15:09):
and mom would get them and she would have them
cataloged and you could come over and it was like
a library card and you could check them out. That's
only because she had people she did this to her
like okay, I borrow this, and she was so giving
like yes, yes, yes, of course, and then like they
never returned it. But she learned fast, and she like

(15:32):
she had an eye on everything. When they say moms
have eyes on the back in the back of their heads,
I mean my mom like she saw everything. She always
knew everything. Anyway. I couldn't get away with a thing anyway.
I mean growing up my friends I told about like
my mom notoriously had out candies and when she smoked
cigarettes and alcohol, like it wasn't my parents. Weren't the

(15:59):
parents that locked anything up because my brother and I
never took anything. Like I would have kids come home
and be like, oh, you know, like my six year
old friends like, oh my god, there's cigarettes here. Don't
you just want to smoke them? Like you No, Nope,
Oh my god, there's candy. Can we have some? They
just be like gobbling chocolate and like getting cokes and

(16:20):
pepsis and mountain dews out of the refrigerator and doctor
pepper and I'd be like, eh, like it was like
an everyday thing. My mom believed everything in moderation, which
is something I carry through with my kids because I
feel like it's like in Europe, like they have them
drinking at such a young age that I feel like,

(16:41):
you know, when they get to be adults, they can
handle it. You know, it's about socializing and entertaining and
a good meal and conversation wine. It's not taken for
granted like it is in America. But anyway, yeah, so
my friends did not steal. They were allowed to take anything,
take all that, and like they'd be like, ooh, there's

(17:01):
booze back here, and I'd be like, m yeah. But anyway,
at my apartments, I moved out, went to my apartment.
I did have I don't know if i'd call them friends.
I had, well, I had one friend. So my mom
growing up was a collector of antiques, and she got

(17:24):
me into collecting. Well, I have a famous collection. I've
asked my mom where it is. Oh god, I hope
it's somewhere of salt dips. Wait what my mom started
collecting salt dips for me. They're like little glass and
different things they would put salt in, but little I

(17:44):
don't know why. This couldn't tell you why. And I
feel like my godfather, Dean Martin got me into collecting
original original coins. So I used to have packs of
like the original coins each year. God, I gotta find
those two, okay. But I also when I moved to

(18:06):
my first apartment, even though I didn't smoke cigarettes, it
was like a rite of passage, like I was an adult,
so I didn't have out like cigarettes and cigarette holders,
but I would have I did collect match strikers, like
they have beautiful glass ones you can go. I love
to flea market and get them match strikers. I have matches,

(18:29):
but that's good for lighting candles and stuff. And then
I would have lighters, but like the big ass like
it looked like you were gonna like rub them and
a genie would come out, like it looked like a
big brass like genie lantern. I don't know. They have
them in all shapes. They had silver ones and gold
ones and anyway very expensive ones. And I collected those

(18:50):
because my mom had to collect at them, and I
was an adult now and I should collect things my
mom collected, and my mom has exquisite taste. Anyway, I
had those, but I'm talking these lighters. They're good, like
they're hefty. They're like at least five patents, I would say,
like heavy. And we were with a friend and I

(19:13):
had like pregame my apartment. My friends always would come there.
We were twenty one and pregame there. Then we'd go
to like a club. And we were at a club
after we had pregamed at my apartment and my friend
had taken off his leather jacket and I don't even

(19:34):
know why. I'm trying to remember the reason. We went
through his pocket. I don't know if someone said like
they were trying to get money, like cash, oh, to
go to like the restroom to tip the attendant. I
don't know, it was something, but he stupidly was like, oh,

(19:54):
I have it, yeah yeah, or I like I have ones,
like check my pocket. And so my friend went in
and was like what and pulls up one of my
heavy ass silver lighters. I mean, this thing was probably like,
I don't know, two hundred and fifty dollars at least,
like it was like a good vintage find and heavy

(20:16):
as fuck, so like to carry that around and big,
it's not like, I don't know how he thought he
would get away with it. And she pulls it up
and she's like she lived with me, She's my roommate
and her name is Jenny, and Jenny's like, what, I
just found this in so and so's leather jacket and
I was like, oh my god, that's my lighter. And

(20:38):
then she was like, oh my god. So then we
decided to like a f with him, and we were
just like we'd wait and wait and like everything was fine,
and then like we'd order a drink and be like cheers,
and like we just pulled up the later and be
like lighter, cheers and just like the look on his face,
and we just kept bringing up lighter, lighter. But we
never confronted him, you know, he was just like shitting bread, Like,

(21:00):
oh my god, I stole the lighter from her coffee table. Anyway,
Then one time at band camp, I never hid my pictures,
I never hid anything. I didn't have safes, I didn't
lock things. So my apartment was a free for all, Like,
oh my god, like who knows, Like people weren't as

(21:22):
devious then, and I feel like if it was nowadays, whoa,
we'd make a fortune going through my house. Oh that's
not an invitation. Anyway. I was filming a movie in
South Carolina, a TV movie for NBC now it's on Lifetime,

(21:42):
and I had some friends come in, and my friends
came in for the weekend, like all my friends from
LA and we were filming and having like at my
apartment in South Carolina. We were in the apartment and
we were drinking and having a good time. Now, I

(22:05):
have never been a smoker my whole like youth, but
I would occasionally like if my friend smoked after a
few drinks, have a cigarette, but it wasn't like I think.
There's like one picture in the public of like me
and Brian and Shannon, I'm smoking a cigarette. I was
probably just trying to fit in. Never liked them and

(22:27):
when I was young. So anyway, in this one picture,
we were dancing to music Grease soundtrack, of course my fave,
and we were playing like Grease, Lightning or something. And
as I if you know me, you know me, I
can am very very flexible. I am in a G

(22:49):
string and a tank top, platinum short hair. So set
the stage of the time period here and I'm on
the back of my couch and I'm doing like a
full on split, like with a cigarette hanging out of
my mouth. Very controversial for Donna Martin back then. I'm

(23:10):
just saying, like I was wearing a G string, legs
full on split right across and one hand in the
air and a cigarette hanging out of my mouth, like
the like iconic good girl, being the most iconic bad girl,
like National Inquirer. Please they saw it coming. Anyway, cut tow,

(23:32):
I go back to my apartment, we get the film developed. Yeah,
that's right. It was all disposable cameras back then, and
that photo. All my friends would laugh at it. But
I had it in my drawer in my closet, like
it'd be like, oh, my sweaters, my cardigans, my vibrators,
oh pictures of me with a cigarette in my mouth

(23:53):
doing the splits in a G string. But yeah, things
like that. You know, I'm just kidding. I didn't use avibrator,
but oh my god, I did have it, like ten
Hello Kitty vibrators because once I was at the pleasure
Chest and I was so shocked and I was like,
oh my god, and I was like, Hello Kitty. It
was like the cutest thing. I decided to get it
for all my girlfriends for Christmas and got like ten

(24:15):
pink Hello Kitty vibrators. That me being me, I like
never wrapped, never gave and they just sat there, never
tried it. Actually, to be honest, gimmickey ones are never
the most powerful anyway. So I was filming somewhere and

(24:36):
my roommate at the time, a boy roommate, had a
party and had people over, which was fine, I think,
you know what. I was filming nine on two and zero,
So I was working late. I came home and this
isn't his fault, like he didn't tell this human to
do this. And my roommate, Kevin and I he had
people over and they were friends of mine as well,

(24:57):
and I was filming late. I came home and I
was like, oh my god, Okay, I'm like, I'll hang
out for a little bit. And I hung out on
the couch for a little bit and then I went
to bed. Thought nothing of that night. The next week,
my publicist calls and says, I don't know if it
was National Enquirer. We can look this up in fact check,

(25:17):
but it was something a publication has a photo of you,
and you're scantily clad and you're doing a really like
a pose that's not appropriate, and you have a cigarette
hanging out of your mouth. And immediately I was like
it's just pertaining to be Sandy increased lightning. I was

(25:38):
just trying to be the good girl turned bad for
one night. Yeah that was me anyway. Yeah, I knew
exactly the picture. So I go to my bedroom, open
up that bottom drawer all fucking ten. Hello, kitty vibrators
still there. Why couldn't they have taken those? Uh? And
I looked through the photos and that photo's gone. So yeah,

(26:01):
so someone stole the photo and sold it, and I
have one more. I mean, I'm sure people took shit
all the time. Like I just wasn't that person. I
always believe people were good until my friends would be
like that person's got to go. They're a leech. They're like,

(26:22):
we don't like we think they're like gonna sell stories.
Like my friends always had the best radar far sooner
than I did. I would fight tooth and nail for
people until it was too long, too late, because I
always wanted to believe that people had good intentions, which
hardly ever was the case back then. Anyway, my roommate

(26:45):
again Kevin, had a girlfriend, one of many who I
really liked, and not just because she had my namesake,
which is kind of awkward in itself, but oh the
things like or come from the room. I never wanted
to hear coming from him. And it was my name.
But she was very cute and I actually took style

(27:11):
tips from her. I'm like, oh, I like her outfit.
It's like, okay, where'd you get this? And she would
tell me. I'd be like, oh, I'm gonna go buy her?
Are you ok? If we twin? Like? We had great
times together until one day I walk out of my
bedroom and she's wearing this ring like ballsy to wear
it to my apartment in front of me, and I

(27:33):
just knew it was mine because I had gone to
fred Siegel and it was a custom made diamond band
that I had made had I had very tiny I
have very tiny fingers, and I had it made as
a pinky ring. And and this is going way back,
you guys. It was rose Gold. And I'm talking like
early two thousands. This happened like rose Gold was not

(27:55):
in then. I'm always a translator. It was I had
rose golden maid with diamonds, diamond band at fred Siegel,
pinky ring and she's wearing it, and I'm like, wow,
what are the chances me being me. I was super

(28:16):
passive aggressive, and I was like, oh my god, I
love your ring, and she was like she didn't miss
a beach. She goes, oh, thank you, and she I go,
where where'd you get it? And she goes, oh, I
don't know. My mom got it for me. And I
got that's so crazy. I go, I have the exact
same one, and I got at Fred's Siegel and it

(28:38):
was custom made. And cause I have like the tiniest hands,
Like my ring finger is sized like three and a
half like my pinky. God, it's like baby Pinky's. I
was like, that's crazy, but you have super tiny hands too,
and she's like yeah, yeah, And I was like, yeah,
it looks exactly the same. That's so wild. Well that matches.
We have the same name, we like to wear twenty

(28:58):
outfits and match the weel the same taste in rings.
So I go to my jewelry drawer lo and behold
is gone. Anyway, Kevin confronted her and she did end
up saying admitting it, and I got that ring back.
Now I'm fired up all over again.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
What is the biggest amount you've ever charged in one day?

Speaker 1 (29:30):
And what was it? Oh? The most I ever charged
on a credit card. Oh boy, let me put this
into perspective. Amy would say, I'm just trying to like
make up for my life and I can't like it.
I don't have to explain myself, but I feel I do. So.
It was definitely my own money, like not my parents' money.

(29:51):
I worked really hard for it. I had come from
a family where I would you know my mom, I
get my shopping skills from someone from my mom. You know,
my dad like didn't care about shopping, never wanted to
go shopping. My mom. I would see her, you know,
we were gonna Naven Marcus, and if she loved a
pair of shoes, you know, she would be like, that's great,

(30:14):
or a sweater, I'll take them in all five colors.
Like would she'd get me a dress? You know? It
would be like little girl dress. This is like even
when I was like five, it would be like, here's
your dress from Bonwood. Tell her or I'm magnum. This
is all old school. I'm talking about in Beverly Hills,
but not there anymore either, But Bullocks remember Bullocks Anyway,

(30:36):
I digress. Uh. She would be like, oh, that dress
is beautiful. I want it for her in size five
or six tea, and I'll take it in white, baby pink,
baby blue, and baby yellow. Like so I'm setting the stage.
Once I had my own money, and I was very

(30:57):
like my first shopping spree when I was on I
got a credit card because my parents didn't give me
a credit card. So you know, i'd go out with
my friends at night. My dad would like hand me
in twenty or like one hundred bucks. Like it wasn't
what people thought. Like. But when I first started making
money on nine oh two and oh, I had a
business manager and they sent me up a bank account.

(31:19):
I got my first credit card. It was at the
Beverly Center which is now not called Beverly Center where
Beverly Connection. What is it called now Westfield. I don't know,
they own everything, uh, And it was Losienaga and Beverly Boulevard. Anyway,
I went there with my very first credit card and
I went to Oh my god, I'm blanking. Not a spree,

(31:42):
but like Express. I went to Express. I know, I
know everyone's disappointed it wasn't some high end designer. Don't worry,
I'll get to that. I started I started small. I
didn't know I didn't know I was learning, but I
was like fascinating, Like what do you mean I give
you a card and like it's paid for and I

(32:06):
don't have to exchange money. It's just like you pay
it off later. Well, clearly I learned that. Well I
can't wait till the day where I'm allowed to have
a credit card again. AnyWho, Yeah, that was the first one.
But it was like I don't know, probably like two
hunderds three in our dollars, but the biggest spending. And

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this is like I would be hesitant to say it
right now because so many things have come back to
bite me in the ass that I've said, but it
was in a book and so I wrote it, and
then it's just like come back to be like, oh
my god, I can't believe she dropped this much money,
and it's like I was just trying to tell a story,

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you know, I made. I worked really hard for that money,
and I was a single girl. I didn't have anyone
else to support, and I was allowed to spend money
on myself anyway. Okay, so it's a toss up between
adult Chang Gabonna in New York where I'm at right now. Oh,

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those days are over. Not going to adult chang Gabona
right now, but uh, let me rephrase that those days
we'll be back again. I'll just spend it more wisely
than Oh that was a rhyme. It was deil chang upon.
I was with my best friend, my gusband Moran, and

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we were in New York and we came in and
it was like, I don't know, like, wow, they saw
me coming. I walked in and I didn't know, so
I thought this was normal. They were like, did one
of those things like everyone someone's here and likes spelling.
And I was like, oh, no, no, no, I don't serve anything,

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you know me humble to a fault please, Tori, it's hi.
You know, you know it's in my jenes, like, not
my jeans, it's in my brain and heart to like
I'd rather like jump in and start like making sales
at the counter or help you clean up in the
back clamp for myself, but I'm all about helping other

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people clean up, you know. This was yeah. So I
was like they were like misspelling Tory, please, uh could
we shut down the store for you? I don't think
that's necessary. No, no, no, you know I'm sure you don't
want people seeing you. Is that a thing? Maron's like
they're offering this, say yes, and I was like, I mean, yes,

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thank you very much. That would be great. Granted it
was like I don't know, it was like five thirty.
They were closing in six. It wasn't It's not like
I shut them down the middle of the day. It's
not like I'm like kimk or something, except I was
bucked on anyway, they shut down the store, they bring
us out champagne. But then here's where it goes dicey guys.
So they now shut down the store for me, which

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I'm super uncomfortable with, but going along with it because
I'm impressing my husband, like he's like, oh my god,
imagine like we're gonna tell this story and we have
for thirty plus years. So we're sitting on the couch.
They're all coming out and they're like bringing one thing
to me at a time, and I'm just like, oh
my gosh. So they've shut down the store for me.

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They're giving us free champagne, and how do I not
buy something. That's the only thing going through my brain,
like oh my gosh, and not just buy something. I
felt like, oh my god, I feel like I have
to like buy multiple things, like I have to live
up to who they think I am or want to be.

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So anyway, I think I dropped like twenty thousand that day.
I don't know. We'll have to fact check that, fact
check that in my book. But I'm happy to say,
well that I save them. All those coats, they didn't
go to waste. I wore them all over the years,

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except the fur one. I didn't know back then, you guys,
like it wasn't a thing. I grew up my mom
Like I didn't understand. You know. It was like just
when I was like going into like animal rescue, I
didn't understand, like you don't wear furs. Like It's just
I grew up with parents from a different generation and
in Hollywood. So I do have to admit I still

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have it. But I did get a fur coat that day,
the last one I ever got. Now I get all
vintage fur because you know, I didn't kill it. Someone
else has worn it. I'm just taking the leftovers, uh
and faux fur. But yeah, it was like a brand new,
amazing fur coat and I've never worn it. Still has
the tags on it. I can't. But anyway, all these

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coats were saved in my storage units and now are
shoved in my garage where I think there's moths. So
I better get on that before they're totally destroyed. But yeah,
and then Kevin, my roommate at the time, used to
love to remind me that he's like I would come
back from dental school and there'd just be like bags

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of clothes and racks and I'd be like, yeah, another
thing happened. So there was this really nice saleswoman at
at Product and this is when I was trying to
like I went through this phase where I was like
I don't want to dress like cool young girl, like
I want to like elevate. And I think this is

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when my manager at the time had been like, we
got to get you out of Donna Martin and like
Tori Spelling, and she made me dye my hair dark.
And I was wearing like suits and stuff. Oh my god.
And I remember going to Sundance. I had a movie
in Sundance and multiple years, but the first time I
went and I was like I had seen this like

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beautiful velvet student Gwyneth Paltrow, and I was like oh
my god, that's the look. And I bought it at
Gucci and then I got to Sundance and like everyone's
in like puffers and like jeans and beanies, and I'm like, okay, cool,
not wearing that. I had no idea I was from La.
I didn't understand. But I started going to Prada because

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they were very into like cool but like suits. You guys,
you know. I was like, yeah, it was a time.
Go through my pictures you'll see turtlenecks and suits and
like scarves. It was a thing for a bit when
I had read brown Hair. But this amazing saleswoman at
Prada really loved me, and I really loved her, and
I wanted her to get commissioned. And the problem didn't

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happen when I went to the store. The problem would
be that she would say she'd call me and she'd
be like, our newest collection just came in. I'll send
it to your apartments and like on consignment, and she's like,
you know, I have your credit card and keep what
you want and then I'll just have a you know,
the driver come and pick it up the next day. Well,

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me being me and you guys all know this, like
I get something from Amazon, you guys, and it takes
me like six months to open it. Like I just
boxes would pile up. I was just so busy and
I'm still like that now my brain doesn't think like that.
And I was working like fifteen hour days on nine

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o two to zero and I was like, oh my god.
So of course, by the time the next day rolls around,
she's like, okay, I need it back, I'm saying the driver.
I was like, oh my god, I haven't gone through
and I haven't gone through it, and then I feel guilty.
One time, I'm like, I'll just keep it all, you know.
I don't want her to get mad. I don't want
her to cancel me as a client. All about trying
to make people like me, So yeah, that hurt my

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bank account. Oh. I was really into Fendy and then
one day Fendy went out. I had all the bag attes,
like all of them, and one day they went out.
I remember I had friends that were like, you really
should sell those Fendys because Fendy is one brand that's
never going to come back. Hello, it's totally back glad.
I kept them all, but there was this one Fendi

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bag I still have it, wear it all the time. Actually,
it's like my one dressy bag. My friend's always like,
do you have any other bags? I'm like no, and
she goes it reminds me of the life you used
to lead. I'm like totally. Anyway, it was like all
like sequins and like, it's so gorgeous. But it was
five thousand dollars. Even then, I was like, this is crazy,

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this is rent. What the hell? But I got it,
I have it. I love that bag. Yeah. So that
was my designer era. Oh god, it was fabulous. Dulchain
Gablana for Sachi Prada. Yeah, no, I got nada in
my Prada. Oh well, I hope you enjoyed this episode

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of storytelling for misspelling. Tune in next week where I'm
gonna divulge the biggest A List actor that I made
out with.