Speaker 1: Misspelling with tory spelling an iHeartRadio podcast. So you all know,
Speaker 1: I am a big fan of storytelling. That's sto r I.
Speaker 1: I'm a bigger fan of using my name to brand myself.
Speaker 1: It's the kif that keeps on giving. Don't worry. I
Speaker 1: got like enough bullying in school. Like when I was young,
Speaker 1: tell me a story toy that was from a teacher,
Speaker 1: not even a kid. I thought it was like I
Speaker 1: just wanted to be named Jennifer. Like growing up, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, and I had the great story,
Speaker 1: like my name was Victoria. But my mom was like,
Speaker 1: but I'm not on board with your name being Vicky,
Speaker 1: so I want a nickname. And my godmother, Barbara Stanwick,
Speaker 1: was like, you should call her toy like it. Hey,
Speaker 1: this has like the beautiful Hollywood story here story again,
Speaker 1: that's t o r I. But I can't help but
Speaker 1: swap wise for eyes now it's just in my genes.
Speaker 1: But yeah, when you're like eight years old and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I just want to be a Kate or Jennifer,
Speaker 1: like I said, I want it. I want it so
Speaker 1: desperately my name should be Jennifer. But yeah, it was Tory,
Speaker 1: and people are always like, oh, it's a weird name,
Speaker 1: laughing all the way to the bank. Now, mister Rhodes
Speaker 1: in my fifth grade history teacher, Yeah, you're the one
Speaker 1: to shame me anyway. Okay, So I've written many books.
Speaker 1: My first book was called Storytelling, and I just I
Speaker 1: love telling stories. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Speaker 1: My dad was an amazing storyteller, and I didn't think
Speaker 1: I had a gift for it till I saw how
Speaker 1: much joy it would bring, even friends at school telling
Speaker 1: stories that I thought met nothing, like, just this is
Speaker 1: what happened over the weekend, and they'd be laughing and
Speaker 1: like And my attention to detail, I'm very focused on.
Speaker 1: I have a photographic memory, so basically I see things
Speaker 1: in terms of like a movie in my head. So
Speaker 1: I could see things that happen in my stories and
Speaker 1: I could tell you exactly, which was very helpful for
Speaker 1: my co writer for my books because I could literally
Speaker 1: set the stage and be like, Okay, this happened in
Speaker 1: this place on this date. I'm very good with dates,
Speaker 1: like don't mess with me with dates, like it's like yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'd be like I was wearing this dress and
Speaker 1: this color shoes, and this person was standing to my left.
Speaker 1: And it's just very precise, which when you were conveying
Speaker 1: your stories, really helps set the stage for the viewer
Speaker 1: slash listener slash reader slash friend you're telling it to
Speaker 1: at a cocktail party, just really visualizing the story. Anyway,
Speaker 1: storytelling my first book, which went number one on the
Speaker 1: New York Times bestseller list. Woo. I've written six books,
Speaker 1: but that was my first. That was my first book,
Speaker 1: and I had the best time writing it with And
Speaker 1: I had a ghostwriter, Hillary Lifton, who has done all
Speaker 1: my books, including my children's book with me. Because we
Speaker 1: became fast friends and she was very collaborative. She quickly
Speaker 1: found out that it wasn't just like sometimes. I found
Speaker 1: out the world of ghostwriting very fascinating. It comes in
Speaker 1: all shapes and forms, Like you can have a celebrity
Speaker 1: and you literally have to create their voice while telling
Speaker 1: their stories. But with me, she quickly found out. She's like,
Speaker 1: I'm basically here to type out your stories to format it.
Speaker 1: I'm terrible at formatting. I was like, I have always
Speaker 1: stories go chapter one, chapter two, and just to kind
Speaker 1: of steer your voice. And she's like, but your voice
Speaker 1: is so evident, and that's one piece of advice I
Speaker 1: always took with me. So I tell stories, and I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, hello, I have a podcast crime, real Estate, Hello, Monopoly.
Speaker 1: This would be like park Avenue. No way, they're different
Speaker 1: now park Place, park Place. Yeah. So I'm going to
Speaker 1: do a weekly edition of storytelling by Tori spelling that
Speaker 1: is misspelling and for nasty. Okay, let's get into it. Listen,
Speaker 1: puns are my life. There's two types of human brains.
Speaker 1: You either think in terms of puns or you don't.
Speaker 1: I can't help but thinking puns. So today here we go.
Speaker 1: I am spelling the beans on a lot of juicy stories. Okay.
Speaker 1: My producer Lorraine has graciously agreed to ask me questions,
Speaker 1: and I said, go for it because I can edit
Speaker 1: the book out of this. No, I'm just kidding. No,
Speaker 1: I said go for it because what often happens, and
Speaker 1: this happened every time I was writing one of my books,
Speaker 1: is my writer would it was like she was a therapist.
Speaker 1: It was so cathartic. But I would be like, I No,
Speaker 1: I don't have a story about that, and she'd be
Speaker 1: like okay, and she'd just be like asking me about
Speaker 1: my life and it would trigger a memory that'd be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I haven't thought about that story in
Speaker 1: ten twenty years, and I would have a story. So
Speaker 1: a lot of times I won't remember things, and if
Speaker 1: you ask me in a certain way or ask something
Speaker 1: around it, it will jog my memory. So here we go, Loraine.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? Are you ready? That's the question. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yo, We're gonna go there? Okay, Oh god, okay,
Speaker 1: ease me in, be gentle. It's my first time. Highly
Speaker 1: doubt that. Okay.
Speaker 2: So we've done a lot of episodes about your fabulous
Speaker 2: family parties, right, yes, okay, there must have been more
Speaker 2: than one, but at least one celebrity who got wasted
Speaker 2: at one of your shindigs in Beverly Hills, and I
Speaker 2: want to know who.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I could take this a variety various different directions.
Speaker 1: Let's say we had very few parties at our house
Speaker 1: pre mannor Baby Manor Manor Junior. He had some parties,
Speaker 1: but not extensive amount at the Manor. The only huge
Speaker 1: except aside from the Christmas Eve parties every year that
Speaker 1: I've gotten into a little bit, the only huge party
Speaker 1: was when my mom threw the one and only party
Speaker 1: for Prince Charles when he came to America. It was
Speaker 1: the one party he allowed someone to do for him,
Speaker 1: and it was at our house. But my dad every
Speaker 1: year had huge company parties, massive every actor, crew, producers, network. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so those are the parties where they'd probably be some
Speaker 1: little more wasted, I would say, I'm trying to remember.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of them were like at a hotel,
Speaker 1: like in the ballroom, but some of them were at
Speaker 1: the iconic Chasins, which was a Hollywood staple, landmark restaurant
Speaker 1: for like the biggest stars in the world. And I'm
Speaker 1: talking all the way back to like Betty Davis, Joan Crawford,
Speaker 1: like Dean Martin, my godfather, Barbara Stanwick, my godmother, Frank Sinatra,
Speaker 1: like you know, like everyone went there, the rat Pack,
Speaker 1: and then it just went on Jimmy Stewart and then
Speaker 1: it went on through the decades until it closed downs.
Speaker 1: Now Bristol Farms, Beverly Boulevard got its heartbreaking little known facts.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge believer in chili. Uh. I don't get
Speaker 1: my chili skills from a family recipe or a home
Speaker 1: cooked meal. But there was a famous chili and you
Speaker 1: can look it up that I was inspired to make
Speaker 1: by Chasins, which was this huge iconic restaurant. They had
Speaker 1: like shrimp towers and they had like the like the
Speaker 1: meter d and the waiters were like in and almost
Speaker 1: black tie red, like leather couches. People would dress up
Speaker 1: when they came there, like you know where they're like
Speaker 1: furst stoles. Sorry that was back then. Now they're foe
Speaker 1: for stoles. Doesn't even wear a stole anymore. Should bring
Speaker 1: it back. I love a good capelet. Anyway. They would
Speaker 1: like really dress up and they would have like steak,
Speaker 1: like all these cool steaks, and they had actually a
Speaker 1: steak called the Steak Aarin that was my dad's. I'd
Speaker 1: to get the recipe for that. Oh, we have to
Speaker 1: make that one day. That was iconic. But they would
Speaker 1: like you know, it was a whole performance. They would
Speaker 1: you know, Cherry's jubilee and they would light it on
Speaker 1: fire in front of you. It was like you went
Speaker 1: out for like a Sunday family dinner and I was
Speaker 1: wearing my finest Mary Jans let me just tell you,
Speaker 1: and my fur caplet. Sorry, I was eight. I didn't
Speaker 1: choose my clothes but in the Shirley Temple ringlets. But anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: so chili chili was one of their main things, which
Speaker 1: is so random. That's like a comfort food and not
Speaker 1: something you would see like at a high end restaurant.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I digress. I think, you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't know if she was wasted, but and we can
Speaker 1: fact check this and see, my luck, she'll be like,
Speaker 1: I've been sober for fifty years, Like how dare you
Speaker 1: say that? But uh, I'll be canceled. But anyway, Judge
Speaker 1: Judy and not wasted, but she was. I guess what
Speaker 1: it was that really I took note of. And keep
Speaker 1: in mind, my dad's company was a public traded company
Speaker 1: in the later years, so he owned different film companies.
Speaker 1: So there are you know, movie stars at at his
Speaker 1: holiday parties. It went from Chasins to like the huge
Speaker 1: hotel like you know Biltmore all his TV shows all
Speaker 1: and it expanded to and I don't know exactly why,
Speaker 1: but the network that Judge Judy was on was part
Speaker 1: of Spelling was linked to it. So anyway, and I
Speaker 1: guess I was just so shocked and like everyone was
Speaker 1: getting up and giving speeches, and yeah, I was just
Speaker 1: so shocked because everyone's like Judge Judy, Judge Judy. And
Speaker 1: I was like what, I put down my cocktail for
Speaker 1: a second. I'm like, let me pay attention. And I
Speaker 1: looked to the stage and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what a hot piece of ass. Like she was up there,
Speaker 1: you guys in like this slinky little, like very body
Speaker 1: con like dress and she was hot, af like gorgeous,
Speaker 1: sexy and talking and was funny and kind of body.
Speaker 1: I mean, she is, you know, she's definitely very firm.
Speaker 1: But she was like cool, super cool. She was dancing,
Speaker 1: really good dancer, super sexy. Wait, oh my god, dancing
Speaker 1: with the stars. Should have judged Judy. Sad thing? Have
Speaker 1: they done that? Anyway. I don't know if she'd had
Speaker 1: a few cocktails, but you know, to the young brain,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, she's letting loose. She
Speaker 1: must be drunk, but who knows. But I was super impressed.
Speaker 1: She's got mad moves. You guys, Oh my god, you
Speaker 1: know who used to always hit on me at those things?
Speaker 1: Woo do you remember? Oh god, I shouldn't say this,
Speaker 1: now you gotta say it. Ted McGinley oh, he was
Speaker 1: on love Boat and then he was on Married with Children.
Speaker 2: Revenge of the Nerds.
Speaker 1: Revenge of the Nerds. Right, he was the hawkey of course,
Speaker 1: that's what I knew him from. Oh my god, duh,
Speaker 1: such a big Revenge of the Nerds fan. But I
Speaker 1: gotta say, looking back on I'm I'm looking back on
Speaker 1: a couple of them. I feel like my dad like
Speaker 1: kind of asked him to court you court his daughter.
Speaker 1: But what's our age difference? Like now, I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, how old is he? He's sixty six? That's
Speaker 1: quite the difference. What wow. So definitely the first time
Speaker 1: was like at this like Santa Barbara, like a charity
Speaker 1: fundraiser or something. I went with my parents. I remember
Speaker 1: we were all in like western gear or something, and
Speaker 1: I think I was like eighteen, and my dad definitely
Speaker 1: sat him with me, like next to me at my table,
Speaker 1: and I feel like he asked me a dance and
Speaker 1: he asked me. I don't know, I just or me.
Speaker 1: That's a story. I told myself, like why would this
Speaker 1: hunk rama? Like I was like, why would he ever
Speaker 1: flirt with a girl like me? And so my dad
Speaker 1: must have set this up. But who knows. Looking back,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you mean? I was funny, I
Speaker 1: was smart, like I was cute, Like why not me?
Speaker 1: I feel like my dad was like, hey, pal, you
Speaker 1: want to keep working date my daughter. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I'm just messing her anyhow. Oh my god, I always
Speaker 1: wanted to date Gopher from the Love Boat. Oh it's
Speaker 1: such a crush on him. At eight. Could have been
Speaker 1: his wife. I would have been a politician's wife. Okay,
Speaker 1: we all know you grew up with lots of stuff, right, Yes.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have a friend come over and suddenly
Speaker 1: something was missing? Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1: I'm not proud of this, but I am very trusting
Speaker 1: and I opened my home. Are we talking like at
Speaker 1: my mom's house? Because no, I mean she listen, back
Speaker 1: in the day we have she would get the screeners
Speaker 1: for the movies, which a lot of people in the
Speaker 1: industry get now, but this is back like back in
Speaker 1: the day, it was like a rarity in My dad
Speaker 1: and mom would get them and she would have them
Speaker 1: cataloged and you could come over and it was like
Speaker 1: a library card and you could check them out. That's
Speaker 1: only because she had people she did this to her
Speaker 1: like okay, I borrow this, and she was so giving
Speaker 1: like yes, yes, yes, of course, and then like they
Speaker 1: never returned it. But she learned fast, and she like
Speaker 1: she had an eye on everything. When they say moms
Speaker 1: have eyes on the back in the back of their heads,
Speaker 1: I mean my mom like she saw everything. She always
Speaker 1: knew everything. Anyway. I couldn't get away with a thing anyway.
Speaker 1: I mean growing up my friends I told about like
Speaker 1: my mom notoriously had out candies and when she smoked
Speaker 1: cigarettes and alcohol, like it wasn't my parents. Weren't the
Speaker 1: parents that locked anything up because my brother and I
Speaker 1: never took anything. Like I would have kids come home
Speaker 1: and be like, oh, you know, like my six year
Speaker 1: old friends like, oh my god, there's cigarettes here. Don't
Speaker 1: you just want to smoke them? Like you No, Nope,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's candy. Can we have some? They
Speaker 1: just be like gobbling chocolate and like getting cokes and
Speaker 1: pepsis and mountain dews out of the refrigerator and doctor
Speaker 1: pepper and I'd be like, eh, like it was like
Speaker 1: an everyday thing. My mom believed everything in moderation, which
Speaker 1: is something I carry through with my kids because I
Speaker 1: feel like it's like in Europe, like they have them
Speaker 1: drinking at such a young age that I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, when they get to be adults, they can
Speaker 1: handle it. You know, it's about socializing and entertaining and
Speaker 1: a good meal and conversation wine. It's not taken for
Speaker 1: granted like it is in America. But anyway, yeah, so
Speaker 1: my friends did not steal. They were allowed to take anything,
Speaker 1: take all that, and like they'd be like, ooh, there's
Speaker 1: booze back here, and I'd be like, m yeah. But anyway,
Speaker 1: at my apartments, I moved out, went to my apartment.
Speaker 1: I did have I don't know if i'd call them friends.
Speaker 1: I had, well, I had one friend. So my mom
Speaker 1: growing up was a collector of antiques, and she got
Speaker 1: me into collecting. Well, I have a famous collection. I've
Speaker 1: asked my mom where it is. Oh god, I hope
Speaker 1: it's somewhere of salt dips. Wait what my mom started
Speaker 1: collecting salt dips for me. They're like little glass and
Speaker 1: different things they would put salt in, but little I
Speaker 1: don't know why. This couldn't tell you why. And I
Speaker 1: feel like my godfather, Dean Martin got me into collecting
Speaker 1: original original coins. So I used to have packs of
Speaker 1: like the original coins each year. God, I gotta find
Speaker 1: those two, okay. But I also when I moved to
Speaker 1: my first apartment, even though I didn't smoke cigarettes, it
Speaker 1: was like a rite of passage, like I was an adult,
Speaker 1: so I didn't have out like cigarettes and cigarette holders,
Speaker 1: but I would have I did collect match strikers, like
Speaker 1: they have beautiful glass ones you can go. I love
Speaker 1: to flea market and get them match strikers. I have matches,
Speaker 1: but that's good for lighting candles and stuff. And then
Speaker 1: I would have lighters, but like the big ass like
Speaker 1: it looked like you were gonna like rub them and
Speaker 1: a genie would come out, like it looked like a
Speaker 1: big brass like genie lantern. I don't know. They have
Speaker 1: them in all shapes. They had silver ones and gold
Speaker 1: ones and anyway very expensive ones. And I collected those
Speaker 1: because my mom had to collect at them, and I
Speaker 1: was an adult now and I should collect things my
Speaker 1: mom collected, and my mom has exquisite taste. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: had those, but I'm talking these lighters. They're good, like
Speaker 1: they're hefty. They're like at least five patents, I would say,
Speaker 1: like heavy. And we were with a friend and I
Speaker 1: had like pregame my apartment. My friends always would come there.
Speaker 1: We were twenty one and pregame there. Then we'd go
Speaker 1: to like a club. And we were at a club
Speaker 1: after we had pregamed at my apartment and my friend
Speaker 1: had taken off his leather jacket and I don't even
Speaker 1: know why. I'm trying to remember the reason. We went
Speaker 1: through his pocket. I don't know if someone said like
Speaker 1: they were trying to get money, like cash, oh, to
Speaker 1: go to like the restroom to tip the attendant. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it was something, but he stupidly was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I have it, yeah yeah, or I like I have ones,
Speaker 1: like check my pocket. And so my friend went in
Speaker 1: and was like what and pulls up one of my
Speaker 1: heavy ass silver lighters. I mean, this thing was probably like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, two hundred and fifty dollars at least,
Speaker 1: like it was like a good vintage find and heavy
Speaker 1: as fuck, so like to carry that around and big,
Speaker 1: it's not like, I don't know how he thought he
Speaker 1: would get away with it. And she pulls it up
Speaker 1: and she's like she lived with me, She's my roommate
Speaker 1: and her name is Jenny, and Jenny's like, what, I
Speaker 1: just found this in so and so's leather jacket and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, that's my lighter. And
Speaker 1: then she was like, oh my god. So then we
Speaker 1: decided to like a f with him, and we were
Speaker 1: just like we'd wait and wait and like everything was fine,
Speaker 1: and then like we'd order a drink and be like cheers,
Speaker 1: and like we just pulled up the later and be
Speaker 1: like lighter, cheers and just like the look on his face,
Speaker 1: and we just kept bringing up lighter, lighter. But we
Speaker 1: never confronted him, you know, he was just like shitting bread, Like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I stole the lighter from her coffee table. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Then one time at band camp, I never hid my pictures,
Speaker 1: I never hid anything. I didn't have safes, I didn't
Speaker 1: lock things. So my apartment was a free for all, Like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like who knows, Like people weren't as
Speaker 1: devious then, and I feel like if it was nowadays, whoa,
Speaker 1: we'd make a fortune going through my house. Oh that's
Speaker 1: not an invitation. Anyway. I was filming a movie in
Speaker 1: South Carolina, a TV movie for NBC now it's on Lifetime,
Speaker 1: and I had some friends come in, and my friends
Speaker 1: came in for the weekend, like all my friends from
Speaker 1: LA and we were filming and having like at my
Speaker 1: apartment in South Carolina. We were in the apartment and
Speaker 1: we were drinking and having a good time. Now, I
Speaker 1: have never been a smoker my whole like youth, but
Speaker 1: I would occasionally like if my friend smoked after a
Speaker 1: few drinks, have a cigarette, but it wasn't like I think.
Speaker 1: There's like one picture in the public of like me
Speaker 1: and Brian and Shannon, I'm smoking a cigarette. I was
Speaker 1: probably just trying to fit in. Never liked them and
Speaker 1: when I was young. So anyway, in this one picture,
Speaker 1: we were dancing to music Grease soundtrack, of course my fave,
Speaker 1: and we were playing like Grease, Lightning or something. And
Speaker 1: as I if you know me, you know me, I
Speaker 1: can am very very flexible. I am in a G
Speaker 1: string and a tank top, platinum short hair. So set
Speaker 1: the stage of the time period here and I'm on
Speaker 1: the back of my couch and I'm doing like a
Speaker 1: full on split, like with a cigarette hanging out of
Speaker 1: my mouth. Very controversial for Donna Martin back then. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, like I was wearing a G string, legs
Speaker 1: full on split right across and one hand in the
Speaker 1: air and a cigarette hanging out of my mouth, like
Speaker 1: the like iconic good girl, being the most iconic bad girl,
Speaker 1: like National Inquirer. Please they saw it coming. Anyway, cut tow,
Speaker 1: I go back to my apartment, we get the film developed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. It was all disposable cameras back then, and
Speaker 1: that photo. All my friends would laugh at it. But
Speaker 1: I had it in my drawer in my closet, like
Speaker 1: it'd be like, oh, my sweaters, my cardigans, my vibrators,
Speaker 1: oh pictures of me with a cigarette in my mouth
Speaker 1: doing the splits in a G string. But yeah, things
Speaker 1: like that. You know, I'm just kidding. I didn't use avibrator,
Speaker 1: but oh my god, I did have it, like ten
Speaker 1: Hello Kitty vibrators because once I was at the pleasure
Speaker 1: Chest and I was so shocked and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, and I was like, Hello Kitty. It
Speaker 1: was like the cutest thing. I decided to get it
Speaker 1: for all my girlfriends for Christmas and got like ten
Speaker 1: pink Hello Kitty vibrators. That me being me, I like
Speaker 1: never wrapped, never gave and they just sat there, never
Speaker 1: tried it. Actually, to be honest, gimmickey ones are never
Speaker 1: the most powerful anyway. So I was filming somewhere and
Speaker 1: my roommate at the time, a boy roommate, had a
Speaker 1: party and had people over, which was fine, I think,
Speaker 1: you know what. I was filming nine on two and zero,
Speaker 1: So I was working late. I came home and this
Speaker 1: isn't his fault, like he didn't tell this human to
Speaker 1: do this. And my roommate, Kevin and I he had
Speaker 1: people over and they were friends of mine as well,
Speaker 1: and I was filming late. I came home and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, Okay, I'm like, I'll hang
Speaker 1: out for a little bit. And I hung out on
Speaker 1: the couch for a little bit and then I went
Speaker 1: to bed. Thought nothing of that night. The next week,
Speaker 1: my publicist calls and says, I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was National Enquirer. We can look this up in fact check,
Speaker 1: but it was something a publication has a photo of you,
Speaker 1: and you're scantily clad and you're doing a really like
Speaker 1: a pose that's not appropriate, and you have a cigarette
Speaker 1: hanging out of your mouth. And immediately I was like
Speaker 1: it's just pertaining to be Sandy increased lightning. I was
Speaker 1: just trying to be the good girl turned bad for
Speaker 1: one night. Yeah that was me anyway. Yeah, I knew
Speaker 1: exactly the picture. So I go to my bedroom, open
Speaker 1: up that bottom drawer all fucking ten. Hello, kitty vibrators
Speaker 1: still there. Why couldn't they have taken those? Uh? And
Speaker 1: I looked through the photos and that photo's gone. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so someone stole the photo and sold it, and I
Speaker 1: have one more. I mean, I'm sure people took shit
Speaker 1: all the time. Like I just wasn't that person. I
Speaker 1: always believe people were good until my friends would be
Speaker 1: like that person's got to go. They're a leech. They're like,
Speaker 1: we don't like we think they're like gonna sell stories.
Speaker 1: Like my friends always had the best radar far sooner
Speaker 1: than I did. I would fight tooth and nail for
Speaker 1: people until it was too long, too late, because I
Speaker 1: always wanted to believe that people had good intentions, which
Speaker 1: hardly ever was the case back then. Anyway, my roommate
Speaker 1: again Kevin, had a girlfriend, one of many who I
Speaker 1: really liked, and not just because she had my namesake,
Speaker 1: which is kind of awkward in itself, but oh the
Speaker 1: things like or come from the room. I never wanted
Speaker 1: to hear coming from him. And it was my name.
Speaker 1: But she was very cute and I actually took style
Speaker 1: tips from her. I'm like, oh, I like her outfit.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, where'd you get this? And she would
Speaker 1: tell me. I'd be like, oh, I'm gonna go buy her?
Speaker 1: Are you ok? If we twin? Like? We had great
Speaker 1: times together until one day I walk out of my
Speaker 1: bedroom and she's wearing this ring like ballsy to wear
Speaker 1: it to my apartment in front of me, and I
Speaker 1: just knew it was mine because I had gone to
Speaker 1: fred Siegel and it was a custom made diamond band
Speaker 1: that I had made had I had very tiny I
Speaker 1: have very tiny fingers, and I had it made as
Speaker 1: a pinky ring. And and this is going way back,
Speaker 1: you guys. It was rose Gold. And I'm talking like
Speaker 1: early two thousands. This happened like rose Gold was not
Speaker 1: in then. I'm always a translator. It was I had
Speaker 1: rose golden maid with diamonds, diamond band at fred Siegel,
Speaker 1: pinky ring and she's wearing it, and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: what are the chances me being me. I was super
Speaker 1: passive aggressive, and I was like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: love your ring, and she was like she didn't miss
Speaker 1: a beach. She goes, oh, thank you, and she I go,
Speaker 1: where where'd you get it? And she goes, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't know. My mom got it for me. And I
Speaker 1: got that's so crazy. I go, I have the exact
Speaker 1: same one, and I got at Fred's Siegel and it
Speaker 1: was custom made. And cause I have like the tiniest hands,
Speaker 1: Like my ring finger is sized like three and a
Speaker 1: half like my pinky. God, it's like baby Pinky's. I
Speaker 1: was like, that's crazy, but you have super tiny hands too,
Speaker 1: and she's like yeah, yeah, And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks exactly the same. That's so wild. Well that matches.
Speaker 1: We have the same name, we like to wear twenty
Speaker 1: outfits and match the weel the same taste in rings.
Speaker 1: So I go to my jewelry drawer lo and behold
Speaker 1: is gone. Anyway, Kevin confronted her and she did end
Speaker 1: up saying admitting it, and I got that ring back.
Speaker 1: Now I'm fired up all over again.
Speaker 2: What is the biggest amount you've ever charged in one day?
Speaker 1: And what was it? Oh? The most I ever charged
Speaker 1: on a credit card. Oh boy, let me put this
Speaker 1: into perspective. Amy would say, I'm just trying to like
Speaker 1: make up for my life and I can't like it.
Speaker 1: I don't have to explain myself, but I feel I do. So.
Speaker 1: It was definitely my own money, like not my parents' money.
Speaker 1: I worked really hard for it. I had come from
Speaker 1: a family where I would you know my mom, I
Speaker 1: get my shopping skills from someone from my mom. You know,
Speaker 1: my dad like didn't care about shopping, never wanted to
Speaker 1: go shopping. My mom. I would see her, you know,
Speaker 1: we were gonna Naven Marcus, and if she loved a
Speaker 1: pair of shoes, you know, she would be like, that's great,
Speaker 1: or a sweater, I'll take them in all five colors.
Speaker 1: Like would she'd get me a dress? You know? It
Speaker 1: would be like little girl dress. This is like even
Speaker 1: when I was like five, it would be like, here's
Speaker 1: your dress from Bonwood. Tell her or I'm magnum. This
Speaker 1: is all old school. I'm talking about in Beverly Hills,
Speaker 1: but not there anymore either, But Bullocks remember Bullocks Anyway,
Speaker 1: I digress. Uh. She would be like, oh, that dress
Speaker 1: is beautiful. I want it for her in size five
Speaker 1: or six tea, and I'll take it in white, baby pink,
Speaker 1: baby blue, and baby yellow. Like so I'm setting the stage.
Speaker 1: Once I had my own money, and I was very
Speaker 1: like my first shopping spree when I was on I
Speaker 1: got a credit card because my parents didn't give me
Speaker 1: a credit card. So you know, i'd go out with
Speaker 1: my friends at night. My dad would like hand me
Speaker 1: in twenty or like one hundred bucks. Like it wasn't
Speaker 1: what people thought. Like. But when I first started making
Speaker 1: money on nine oh two and oh, I had a
Speaker 1: business manager and they sent me up a bank account.
Speaker 1: I got my first credit card. It was at the
Speaker 1: Beverly Center which is now not called Beverly Center where
Speaker 1: Beverly Connection. What is it called now Westfield. I don't know,
Speaker 1: they own everything, uh, And it was Losienaga and Beverly Boulevard. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I went there with my very first credit card and
Speaker 1: I went to Oh my god, I'm blanking. Not a spree,
Speaker 1: but like Express. I went to Express. I know, I
Speaker 1: know everyone's disappointed it wasn't some high end designer. Don't worry,
Speaker 1: I'll get to that. I started I started small. I
Speaker 1: didn't know I didn't know I was learning, but I
Speaker 1: was like fascinating, Like what do you mean I give
Speaker 1: you a card and like it's paid for and I
Speaker 1: don't have to exchange money. It's just like you pay
Speaker 1: it off later. Well, clearly I learned that. Well I
Speaker 1: can't wait till the day where I'm allowed to have
Speaker 1: a credit card again. AnyWho, Yeah, that was the first one.
Speaker 1: But it was like I don't know, probably like two
Speaker 1: hunderds three in our dollars, but the biggest spending. And
Speaker 1: this is like I would be hesitant to say it
Speaker 1: right now because so many things have come back to
Speaker 1: bite me in the ass that I've said, but it
Speaker 1: was in a book and so I wrote it, and
Speaker 1: then it's just like come back to be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, I can't believe she dropped this much money,
Speaker 1: and it's like I was just trying to tell a story,
Speaker 1: you know, I made. I worked really hard for that money,
Speaker 1: and I was a single girl. I didn't have anyone
Speaker 1: else to support, and I was allowed to spend money
Speaker 1: on myself anyway. Okay, so it's a toss up between
Speaker 1: adult Chang Gabonna in New York where I'm at right now. Oh,
Speaker 1: those days are over. Not going to adult chang Gabona
Speaker 1: right now, but uh, let me rephrase that those days
Speaker 1: we'll be back again. I'll just spend it more wisely
Speaker 1: than Oh that was a rhyme. It was deil chang upon.
Speaker 1: I was with my best friend, my gusband Moran, and
Speaker 1: we were in New York and we came in and
Speaker 1: it was like, I don't know, like, wow, they saw
Speaker 1: me coming. I walked in and I didn't know, so
Speaker 1: I thought this was normal. They were like, did one
Speaker 1: of those things like everyone someone's here and likes spelling.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, no, no, no, I don't serve anything,
Speaker 1: you know me humble to a fault please, Tori, it's hi.
Speaker 1: You know, you know it's in my jenes, like, not
Speaker 1: my jeans, it's in my brain and heart to like
Speaker 1: I'd rather like jump in and start like making sales
Speaker 1: at the counter or help you clean up in the
Speaker 1: back clamp for myself, but I'm all about helping other
Speaker 1: people clean up, you know. This was yeah. So I
Speaker 1: was like they were like misspelling Tory, please, uh could
Speaker 1: we shut down the store for you? I don't think
Speaker 1: that's necessary. No, no, no, you know I'm sure you don't
Speaker 1: want people seeing you. Is that a thing? Maron's like
Speaker 1: they're offering this, say yes, and I was like, I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. That would be great. Granted it
Speaker 1: was like I don't know, it was like five thirty.
Speaker 1: They were closing in six. It wasn't It's not like
Speaker 1: I shut them down the middle of the day. It's
Speaker 1: not like I'm like kimk or something, except I was
Speaker 1: bucked on anyway, they shut down the store, they bring
Speaker 1: us out champagne. But then here's where it goes dicey guys.
Speaker 1: So they now shut down the store for me, which
Speaker 1: I'm super uncomfortable with, but going along with it because
Speaker 1: I'm impressing my husband, like he's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: imagine like we're gonna tell this story and we have
Speaker 1: for thirty plus years. So we're sitting on the couch.
Speaker 1: They're all coming out and they're like bringing one thing
Speaker 1: to me at a time, and I'm just like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. So they've shut down the store for me.
Speaker 1: They're giving us free champagne, and how do I not
Speaker 1: buy something. That's the only thing going through my brain,
Speaker 1: like oh my gosh, and not just buy something. I
Speaker 1: felt like, oh my god, I feel like I have
Speaker 1: to like buy multiple things, like I have to live
Speaker 1: up to who they think I am or want to be.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I think I dropped like twenty thousand that day.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll have to fact check that, fact
Speaker 1: check that in my book. But I'm happy to say,
Speaker 1: well that I save them. All those coats, they didn't
Speaker 1: go to waste. I wore them all over the years,
Speaker 1: except the fur one. I didn't know back then, you guys,
Speaker 1: like it wasn't a thing. I grew up my mom
Speaker 1: Like I didn't understand. You know. It was like just
Speaker 1: when I was like going into like animal rescue, I
Speaker 1: didn't understand, like you don't wear furs. Like It's just
Speaker 1: I grew up with parents from a different generation and
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. So I do have to admit I still
Speaker 1: have it. But I did get a fur coat that day,
Speaker 1: the last one I ever got. Now I get all
Speaker 1: vintage fur because you know, I didn't kill it. Someone
Speaker 1: else has worn it. I'm just taking the leftovers, uh
Speaker 1: and faux fur. But yeah, it was like a brand new,
Speaker 1: amazing fur coat and I've never worn it. Still has
Speaker 1: the tags on it. I can't. But anyway, all these
Speaker 1: coats were saved in my storage units and now are
Speaker 1: shoved in my garage where I think there's moths. So
Speaker 1: I better get on that before they're totally destroyed. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and then Kevin, my roommate at the time, used to
Speaker 1: love to remind me that he's like I would come
Speaker 1: back from dental school and there'd just be like bags
Speaker 1: of clothes and racks and I'd be like, yeah, another
Speaker 1: thing happened. So there was this really nice saleswoman at
Speaker 1: at Product and this is when I was trying to
Speaker 1: like I went through this phase where I was like
Speaker 1: I don't want to dress like cool young girl, like
Speaker 1: I want to like elevate. And I think this is
Speaker 1: when my manager at the time had been like, we
Speaker 1: got to get you out of Donna Martin and like
Speaker 1: Tori Spelling, and she made me dye my hair dark.
Speaker 1: And I was wearing like suits and stuff. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: And I remember going to Sundance. I had a movie
Speaker 1: in Sundance and multiple years, but the first time I
Speaker 1: went and I was like I had seen this like
Speaker 1: beautiful velvet student Gwyneth Paltrow, and I was like oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's the look. And I bought it at
Speaker 1: Gucci and then I got to Sundance and like everyone's
Speaker 1: in like puffers and like jeans and beanies, and I'm like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: not wearing that. I had no idea I was from La.
Speaker 1: I didn't understand. But I started going to Prada because
Speaker 1: they were very into like cool but like suits. You guys,
Speaker 1: you know. I was like, yeah, it was a time.
Speaker 1: Go through my pictures you'll see turtlenecks and suits and
Speaker 1: like scarves. It was a thing for a bit when
Speaker 1: I had read brown Hair. But this amazing saleswoman at
Speaker 1: Prada really loved me, and I really loved her, and
Speaker 1: I wanted her to get commissioned. And the problem didn't
Speaker 1: happen when I went to the store. The problem would
Speaker 1: be that she would say she'd call me and she'd
Speaker 1: be like, our newest collection just came in. I'll send
Speaker 1: it to your apartments and like on consignment, and she's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I have your credit card and keep what
Speaker 1: you want and then I'll just have a you know,
Speaker 1: the driver come and pick it up the next day. Well,
Speaker 1: me being me and you guys all know this, like
Speaker 1: I get something from Amazon, you guys, and it takes
Speaker 1: me like six months to open it. Like I just
Speaker 1: boxes would pile up. I was just so busy and
Speaker 1: I'm still like that now my brain doesn't think like that.
Speaker 1: And I was working like fifteen hour days on nine
Speaker 1: o two to zero and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: So of course, by the time the next day rolls around,
Speaker 1: she's like, okay, I need it back, I'm saying the driver.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I haven't gone through
Speaker 1: and I haven't gone through it, and then I feel guilty.
Speaker 1: One time, I'm like, I'll just keep it all, you know.
Speaker 1: I don't want her to get mad. I don't want
Speaker 1: her to cancel me as a client. All about trying
Speaker 1: to make people like me, So yeah, that hurt my
Speaker 1: bank account. Oh. I was really into Fendy and then
Speaker 1: one day Fendy went out. I had all the bag attes,
Speaker 1: like all of them, and one day they went out.
Speaker 1: I remember I had friends that were like, you really
Speaker 1: should sell those Fendys because Fendy is one brand that's
Speaker 1: never going to come back. Hello, it's totally back glad.
Speaker 1: I kept them all, but there was this one Fendi
Speaker 1: bag I still have it, wear it all the time. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's like my one dressy bag. My friend's always like,
Speaker 1: do you have any other bags? I'm like no, and
Speaker 1: she goes it reminds me of the life you used
Speaker 1: to lead. I'm like totally. Anyway, it was like all
Speaker 1: like sequins and like, it's so gorgeous. But it was
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. Even then, I was like, this is crazy,
Speaker 1: this is rent. What the hell? But I got it,
Speaker 1: I have it. I love that bag. Yeah. So that
Speaker 1: was my designer era. Oh god, it was fabulous. Dulchain
Speaker 1: Gablana for Sachi Prada. Yeah, no, I got nada in
Speaker 1: my Prada. Oh well, I hope you enjoyed this episode
Speaker 1: of storytelling for misspelling. Tune in next week where I'm
Speaker 1: gonna divulge the biggest A List actor that I made
Speaker 1: out with.