Inside Tori Spelling's Life Of Lies: Her 20 Most Shocking Fake-Outs, Half-Truths & Hidden Secrets Revealed
Nov. 12 2015, Updated 10:35 a.m. ET
With Tori Spelling currently making headlines for her alleged money issues, RadarOnline.com takes a look at other times the TV heiress might have said something with her fingers crossed.
Tori Spelling
1. Born to Hollywood royalty, Tori Spelling saw first-hand how real life became "reel life" on-screen. Now for the first time, the actress turned reality star has revealed some of the biggest lies she told in trying to make her life look picture-perfect when it was anything but.
Spelling It Like It Is
2. In her new book, Spelling It Like It Is, Spelling claims that when she and husband Dean McDermott renewed their vows on her show, Tori & Dean, they were actually experiencing serious marital issues, and she felt he had "checked out of family life. "It was so much easier to plan the renewal than to work on the relationship," she explains.
Tori Spelling
3. After giving birth to her son Finn, Spelling says she lost weight on what she calls the "Just Keep Your F*****g Mouth Shut And Eat Air Diet," but told US Weekly that she'd lost weight from swimming. "My publicist had given me clear instructions about what to say about my weight loss," she explains. "Women didn't want to know that I had lost weight through dieting, not exercising. … So I said that I swam," even though "I can't do much more than a doggy paddle."
Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott
4. When Spelling and McDermott suffered some real estate losses, they were forced to rent, but still opted for a mansion. "We were living a lie in a grand house," she writes.
Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott
5. Spelling also admits to faking her excitement about the re-engagement that came before the vow renewals. Though torn about going through with it, she says, "I'm Aaron Spelling's daughter. I knew how to write the story. I knew what would tug on heartstrings."
Tori Spelling and Kathie Lee Gifford
6. In 2011, Spelling announced she was pregnant just days after insisting to Kathie Lee Gifford that she was "not expecting" during a Today show appearance. Why the lie?
Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott
7. Spelling recently stage a fake outing to a local L.A. pumpkin patch and brought her own paparazzo along for "candid" shots. Reportedly, she gets a cut of the proceeds when the pictures are sold.
Tori Spelling and Charlie Shanian
8. Just one year after a huge, multi-million-dollar wedding to Charlie Shanian, Spelling cheated on him with McDermott behind his back.
Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott
9. According to Star magazine, Spelling and McDermott have secretly separated at least three times, but she denies the report and insists they're fine.
Dean McDermott
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10. Star also claims that McDermott even secretly moved into Spelling's old apartment at The Wilshire in Westwood for almost two months in 2007 and that he relocated to a hotel after the birth of their daughter Stella in June 2008.
Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott
11. McDermott's long-time friend Michael Olifiers told Star magazine that McDermott had a baby with Spelling to make sure that he had ties to her family's fortune. Spelling later called the claims "lies."
Dean McDermott/Tori Spelling
12. Olifiers also claimed that McDermott said Spelling "looks like she's been hit by a truck" and "looks like a horse." He later had her face tattooed on his arm, and Spelling said the story's "uncreative lies" made her "grossed out."
Tori Spelling and Charlie Shanian
13. When Spelling decided to leave her then-husband, Shanian, for McDermott, she had her therapist dump him for her, Shanian claims. Spelling's rep declined to comment at the time.
Tori Spelling, Dean McDermott and son Jack
14. McDermott's friend Olifiers claims that Spelling asked him to write a letter telling a judge that McDermott's ex, Mary Jo Eustace, was an unfit mother and mentally unstable so she and McDermott could get custody of his son with Eustace, Jack. Spelling said it was "lies."
Mary Jo Eustace/Tori Spelling
15. Spelling insists she wore a low-key tracksuit for her first meeting with McDermott's ex, Eustace. But Eustace says she wore "two pigtails, snugly fitted jeans, and thigh high boots … No recollection of tracksuits …"
Mary Jo Eustace
16. Spelling and McDermott asked his ex to appear on their reality show but she declined, explaining she had no interest in "portraying a broken, abandoned, woman who finds redemption and self-respect participating in her husband's reality show."
Candy Spelling
17. Spelling has publicly bashed her mom Candy for various misdeeds over the years, but Candy insists her daughter simply stopped talking to her suddenly.
Tori Spelling
18. Despite living a life full of lavish trips and designer clothes for years, Spelling recently admitted that she's drained her savings account and is in "serious debt."
Tori Spelling
19. Speaking of fake, Spelling is constantly derided for her less-than-perfect breast implants, and insists she regrets ever getting them. Still, she frequently flashes her ample cleavage.
Tori Spelling, Shannen Doherty and Jennie Garth
20. Shannen Doherty called Spelling a liar for claiming Doherty and 90210 co-star Jennie Garth once got into a fist fight. "We never did," Doherty said. "I think I would remember Jennie's fist connecting with a part of my body or a part of my face."