Earlier this month, Tori Spelling talked about moving on during the holiday season despite everything that has happened this year.
2023 has not been ideal.
In June, Dean McDermott announced the end of their marriage.
Since then, he has done a lot of things. But in all this time he has not seen any of their five common children.
An internal source has been discovered has Us every week about the awkward tension between soon-to-be co-parents Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott.
“Tori and Dean spoke briefly,” the source confirmed.
“But the situation with the separation and the children is still a little chaotic,” the source detailed.
According to the source, things regarding the children remain evolving “and are not completely resolved.”
The source confirmed the obvious: divorce is “very likely” on the horizon for Tori and Dean. After all, they are separated and dating other people too.
“It’s a daily process,” the insider detailed. “And things aren’t exactly amicable.”
Although Dean hasn’t had any real interactions with his children since his split from Tori in June, he has spoken to them on the phone.
“They haven’t had any individual, alone time together, in person, away from Tori,” the inside source then carefully clarified.
This is notably a bigger problem for some children than others. Liam and Stella are in their mid-teens. Beau, on the other hand, is only 6 years old. These six months without a dean represent a twelfth of his entire life.
In June, Dean took to Instagram on a seemingly random Saturday morning to declare that after 18 years together, he and Tori were over.
This came as a shock to many. On the surface, he and Tori were doing better than they had in years.
He deleted the post within hours. However, this does not mean reconciliation.
It turns out Dean was under the influence when he wrote it. And it was far from the first time.
“Alcohol made me feel pretty good. “I started off feeling pretty good until it got to a point where it wasn’t – it ended up in isolation,” Dean explained in a revealing interview last month.
“I ended up drinking a fifth of tequila every night, seven days a week,” he admitted. “And a handful of (prescription drugs) alone with a nice family in the other room.”
“My worst memory with Tori was that last fight where I was drunk and angry,” Dean recalls.
“That was the night I got angry with her and the kids and I saw the light, the last flicker of the flame go out in her eyes,” he described.
Dean added: “I posted (the shared ad) this because I was at the end of my rope. I did not know what to do. I had burned everything again.
As we reported, Dean shares Tori’s private pain left her feeling caught “off guard.”
After McDermott’s explosive interview, a second source said We that Spelling was caught”off guard.”
“It was a lot of personal information about their family,” an inside source said at the time. “Tori has been very protective of the kids, given Dean’s anger and outburst.”
The good news is that Dean’s interview didn’t throw his ex under the bus.
Instead, he claimed that Tori had encouraged and supported him – which had proven to be a thankless chore for her.
Dean spent much of the summer in rehab. He has since moved into a sober group home. That’s where he spent Thanksgiving.
The holiday season is upon us. For some, religious holidays have already arrived, or started, or are taking place today. Others are still waiting for Christmas. And more or less everyone is waiting for New Year’s Eve.
According to a close source, Tori and Dean’s vacation arrangements “remain to be determined.”
“It depends on Dean’s healing process and his commitment to sobriety,” the source stressed. “It’s still up in the air at this point.”
