Tori Spelling is reacting to former costar Kathleen Robertson’s shocking claims about working on the Beverly Hills, 90210 set.
“I was like, OMG, this is wild,” Spelling, 52, shared on the Tuesday, March 10, episode of iHeartRadio’s “misSPELLING” podcast. “I said she left on her own. She wanted to go out and do other things. I didn’t remember it being because of bullying, but I know that it was intense what she came into, what any female came into on that set.”
Last month, Robertson, 52 — who played Clare Arnold for nearly 100 episodes on the hit TV series — described the Beverly Hills, 90210 set as “horribly difficult” during an appearance on “The Slice of Life” podcast.
“It was the biggest show in the world,” she said. “For me — I can’t speak to anyone else — it was not a warm and fuzzy environment to land into.”
Robertson also claimed to have found continuity Polaroids of herself in the makeup trailer cut in half.
“I don’t know who did it,” she said. “[The makeup artists] were embarrassed because they didn’t want me to have seen it. They were trying to protect me.”
Spelling confirmed in her latest podcast episode that her costar’s experience with the Polaroids was true.
“The cut-up Polaroids I do know about. I think she handled it really well,” Spelling recalled to her podcast guest and producer Amy Sugarman. “And she says, ‘I’m tough. I can get through it.’ But it was a lot. It was the biggest show in the world.”
After Robertson shared her story, Spelling said she reached out to her former colleague to discuss her experience.
“I actually texted her a couple of nights ago, and I said, ‘You told the Polaroids story,’” Spelling recalled. “She’s like, ‘I still have so much anxiety.’”
The actress said she was happy to hear that Robertson praised some of her colleagues — including Spelling — for being “very welcoming” and “amazing.”
“It was really hard for me coming on to Saved By the Bell, because I was the new girl. We were all in our teens, and it was tricky,” Spelling recalled. “To this day, I remember who was nice to me and who wasn’t as nice. Once I was on 90210, I was like any guest star that comes on — male or female — I’m gonna just run and embrace them with open arms.”
The “9021OMG” podcast host added, “I’ve never been a bully. Even in real high school, I was the girl that could float to any group, and I just got along with people.”
