Tori Spelling Was Sick for 2 Months, Says Kids Had to Take Care of Her: ‘It’s Been Hell’
- - Tori Spelling Was Sick for 2 Months, Says Kids Had to Take Care of Her: ‘It’s Been Hell’
Cara Lynn ShultzFebruary 10, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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Tori Spelling in Los Angeles in December 2025.
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Tori Spelling says she was sick for eight weeks with multiple illnesses
The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 52, said it started in her sinuses
The mom of five said she was apologizing to her kids, saying her sickness has “been hell”
Tori Spelling says she was sick for eight weeks, catching multiple illnesses that sidelined her to the point where her kids had to step in and manage the house.
“When mom goes down, the ship goes down,” Spelling, 52, told longtime friend and manager Ruthanne Secunda and producer Amy Sugarman while returning to her podcast MisSPELLING after an eight-week absence. The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum explained that “in my financial world” she doesn’t have the means to hire outside help, admitting, “I don’t think anyone believes that.”
“It has been hell,” Spelling said, explaining that “I have had a past of getting sick a lot and frequently, but this one took me down, eight weeks I couldn't work. And it all started with my sinuses. I mean, it started with the five petri dishes that live in my house, but they bring things home, but that's normal.”
Spelling was referring to Liam, 18, Stella, 17, Hattie, 14, Finn, 13, and Beau, 8, the five children she shares with ex Dean McDermott.
Tori Spelling poses with her five children.
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“I now know the name of every, you know, virus and bacterial thing out there. There's enterovirus, there is, rhinovirus, there is COVID,” she said, adding that she also had RSV.
She shares that she was sidelined with “the worst flu-like symptoms you can imagine,” saying “it took me out. I was flat on my back” with an inner ear infection and vertigo, needing several rounds of antibiotics. The only thing that helped, she shared, was an antibiotic-infused nasal rinse.
The part of being sick that was “heartbreaking,” she says, is how it impacted her kids. “After separation and going through the divorce, I was like, ‘I can't cook’ and I didn't cook for two years. I mean, it was all ordering in or going out. And then I got really back into it and the kids were thriving. They were helping with it,” she said. But while she was sick, “I couldn't cook. So we had to go back to ordering in again.”
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“It was so bad that … I couldn't even, like, come downstairs. They would have to help me walk to the bathroom to pee. Like, it was outrageous, and you feel like a child,” Spelling said, sharing that Stella had to rearrange her schedule to pick up her youngest, Beau, from school. “I got to a point where I felt really hopeless ... it gets to the point where you're just — it's depressing being in bed. “
“I kept saying every day, ‘I'm sorry, guys,’ “ she said. “I'm hoping tomorrow I'll feel better.”
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Source: “AOL Entertainment”
