The start of the Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott romance saga was messy, to say the least. In 2005, Spelling’s husband of a year, Charlie Shanian, filed for divorce after he noticed that she was getting rather cozy with McDermott, whom she’d met on the set of “Mind over Murder.” Meanwhile, McDermott’s ex-wife, Mary Jo Eustace, accused Spelling of stealing her man. In the book “The Other Woman,” Eustace described her shock at discovering that her husband was leaving her for the “90210” alumnus, despite knowing her for just three weeks. “Without any warning, the man who had been my partner for 13 years and our sweet little family were slipping away without any input from me,” she wrote.
Similarly, in her memoir “STORI Telling” (via People), Spelling recalled the pain of Shanian discovering that she’d slept with McDermott. “He said, ‘It was with Dean, wasn’t it?'” she wrote. “I said yes. He said, ‘I should have known.’ He left angry and hurt, and I felt sorry and sad.”
But she insisted that she had no regrets about her infidelity, revealing that she fell in love with McDermott the moment she set eyes on him. “Ultimately, you have to realize that happiness is out there and not settle for anything else,” she told Redbook (via CBS News). Weeks after divorcing Shanian in 2006, she wed McDermott in Fiji. “I have never been happier in my life,” McDermott gushed to People.
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