Tori and her family in 2000
Candy Spelling gave an interview to a Massachusetts radio station where she blamed her daughter, Tori, for Aaron Spelling’s death. Do you think I’m joking? These are Candy’s words: “My daughter one day decided that she wasn’t speaking to my husband, myself and my son…It was sad because that’s what killed my husband actually. He just didn’t want to live after that.” Seriously, what is Candy Spelling doing, going on a Bad Mother Tour? Before this, the worst thing that Candy has said about Tori is that “She’s always playing the victim, but at 36 years old, I think it’s time not to play the victim anymore.” Which may or may not be true, and it might be fine if some random person said, but when it’s yo’ mama, damn, that’s cold:

Candy Spelling is blaming the death of her husband Aaron Spelling on the heartache he suffered from daughter Tori’s alleged decision to cut off contact from the family.

In an interview with 94.7 WMAS in Springfield, Mass. this morning, Spelling said that she and her “Beverly Hills 90210”star daughter’s relationship has been nonexistent for the past several years.

“I’ve always been trying to work on the relationship [with Tori],” Spelling said. “I don’t know what the anger is. My daughter one day decided that she wasn’t speaking to my husband, myself and my son and that’s how it’s continued for the last, oh gosh, four or five years.”

Spelling went one step further however, saying Tori’s abandonment ultimately cost Aaron Spelling his will to live.

“It was sad because that’s what killed my husband actually. He just didn’t want to live after that. You know, He had done everything … he could possibly do for his daughter and she wanted no part of him once he couldn’t do anything for her.”

Aaron Spelling died on June 23, 2006. Just days after his death, Tori, 35, gave an interview to Us magazine, slamming her mother for an alleged relationship with family friend Mark Abramson.

Candy and Tori briefly reconciled in 2007 after the birth of Tori’s son Liam with husband Dean McDermott.

But in recent months, things have heated up again, with Candy arguing that Tori will not return any of her phone calls or emails, she has never met her granddaughter Stella and she doesn’t even know where her daughter lives.

Still Tori has denied any feud saying they aren’t “not talking” but have simply “not talked.”

“I love my mother. I’ve always loved her [and] no doubt she loves me. There’s no feud. We simply never meshed,” Tori told People Magazine. “My mother is who she is. I’ve become who I am. At some point I realized those two just didn’t go together.”

[From Fox News]

To me, Tori seems much more mature than her mother, now and forever. For Candy to so casually say “Oh, Tori is why he’s dead” is rather disgusting, and says more about Candy than Tori. So I guess all of that happy-talk from Candy about making up with Tori is pretty much gone. I really think that at this point, Tori is letting go of any desire or whim to resolve her issues with her mother. Perhaps Tori really should do that explicit tell-all about her mother’s sexual hijinks after all.

Candy, Tori and Aaron in 2000

It seems that Tori Spelling is still extremely pissed with her mother, Candy Spelling. Candy’s still out promoting her book, Candyland, and talking about her dysfunctional relationship with Tori, Dean and the kids. Candy’s been all over the place, saying that she would love to make up with Tori, yet a few days later bashing Tori as “playing the victim”. With a mother like that, who needs enemies?

So Tori has an idea to get back at her mother. Tori is going to write another book! But this one will be all about her mother’s crazy sexual liaisons, including an “illicit affair” while Tori’s dad Aaron was dying. Tori will also shed some light on an old Hollywood rumor about a super-producer’s wife who performed a lesbian show with a high-class hooker, all for the benefit of her husband. Gee, does that sound like Candy?

Spelling Telling! Furious because Mom’s using their estrangement to sell her new book “Stories from Candyland,” best-selling author Tori Spelling told insiders she’ll clobber Candy Spelling in a brand-new book that’ll detail Mommie Dearest’s illicit affair – as super-producer husband Aaron lay dying – with an old family “friend.”

Even worse, whisper pals, it could include Tori’s take on a high-class hooker’s lurid tale of alleged hijinks with Mom – while Dad watched – at the fabled Spelling mansion, as revealed in the whore-riffic Phoenix Books blockbuster, “You’ll Never Make Love in this Town Again… Again”.

Said a source: “Tori’s beyond peeved that Candy’s doing the press tour for her book while continuing to say things like, ‘I love my daughter, I love my grandkids – but Tori won’t talk to me.’”

“Tori says her mother knows all too well why they aren’t talking. And she’s cutting her own throat griping about it. Tori’s angry – and she’s not fearful of reprisals from her mother.”

Note to Tori: Put me down for an advance copy. Note to Candy: Leave town!

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, May 25, 2009]

This is one of those stories that could be total crap, but I totally believe it. I don’t think Candy is any kind of saint, and she and Aaron were weird Hollywood royalty for decades. Weird Hollywood sex stories come with that turf. I also don’t doubt that Tori is royally pissed, and she probably is trying to figure out a way to get back at her mother. What’s funny is that Tori is a pretty decent writer, and her tell-all books have been bestsellers. At long last, Tori has found something that she’s really good at: writing about her screwed up family. Her next book will be a page-turner!

Tori is shown with her daughter, Stella, 11 months on 5/13/09. Credit: Fame Pictures

Yesterday we told you about Candy Spelling’s so-called “heartfelt plea” via the Internet to her estranged daughter Tori. Well, any goodwill with Tori she may have garnered has probably now been decimated, thanks to her new interview with OK! Magazine in which she claims that she gave her kids a “normal” life and that Tori is just “playing the victim” again. See- a true bitch can’t keep it hidden for very long!

As Tori Spelling’s new book, Mommywood, which describes her mother Candy Spelling as “disastrous” and calls their relationship “intense and destructive,” hits bookstore shelves, an escalating war of words between mother and daughter has begun. To try to make sense of it all, OK! went straight to Candy to hear her side of things.

“It hurts a lot,” she says in the new issue of OK! about the allegations made in Mommywood. “She’s always playing the victim, but at 36 years old, I think it’s time not to play the victim anymore.”

It appears that one of the biggest issues Candy has with her estranged daughter is that she feels Tori is exploiting her children for her career. “I certainly never took one of my kids and made them objects,” she explains. “It’s always like they’ve got them when it’s convenient for the press. They are objects that are being used for her press persona… My kids — although she says differently — had a very normal life.”

As for her currently strained relationship with Tori, Candy say, “I hope that it would change. My son has not stopped hoping. My husband [legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling] until the day he died was hoping. We are all there ready to welcome her with open arms. But she has to be willing.”

So does Candy think Tori should have any more children? “That would be wonderful,” she says, adding with a laugh, “But just set up more trust funds!

“It shouldn’t be all about the money. I know that’s a big thing with her, but that’s not all it’s about.”

[From OK! Magazine]

I do agree with Candy that the kids should be shielded from the press, but let’s not forget that this is the same woman who told a young Tori that she would be pretty “as soon as you get a nose job.” The woman’s a stone cold bitch! Where do you think Tori learned how to be a fame whore in the first place? I just wish these two nit wits would either hug it out or have a cage match on pay-per-view, and leave the rest of us out of it. We have enough family problems of our own!

Tori Spelling is shown at the airport in LA on 4/14/09. Credit: MATEI/bauergriffinonline.com

Candy and Tori Spelling have more money than many third world countries, thanks to Spelling matriarch Aaron, but even all that dough can’t get rid of their family problems. In Tori’s memoir, she reveals that her mother was extremely critical of her as a child – her looks, her weight, her talent – nothing was out of bounds. The mother and daughter’s strained relationship only got worse after Aaron passed away. But now, as both women are preparing to launch new books, Candy Spelling is reaching out to her estranged daughter via the Internet.

Claiming she’s heard nothing but silence from her daughter, Candy Spelling has posted an emotional public letter to Tori Spelling, urging her to help repair their relationship.

“You haven’t responded to my emails, phone calls and text messages,” Candy, 63, says Monday on CandySpelling.com. “You say you look at my website, so I’m trying to reach you that way. I want to see you and your family – in private, like the ‘normal family’ you say always wanted.”

Candy says she’s been cut off from Tori, 35, and her two children with husband Dean McDermott, Liam, 2, and Stella, 10 months. Tori has responded that her mother can contact her, telling PEOPLE, “She knows how to reach me, she knows where we live.”

The spat comes as both have authored new books – Candy’s released last month, Tori’s reaching stores Tuesday.

“With your book coming out [Tuesday], the war of words will escalate,” writes Candy on her Web site. “That’s not what I want. I want us to be a family.”

Responding to Tori’s claim that her mother hasn’t “stepped up” to have a relationship, Candy writes, “Well, I’m stepping up. Call me, write me, text me.”

“I’m a mother who, like every mother, wants communication and a great relationship with you, my daughter, and your family,” writes Candy. “I’d love to work it out the way all families try to resolve issues. In private. But, as I wrote in my book, I was a celebrity by marriage” – her husband is the late TV producer Aaron Spelling – “then a celebrity by motherhood. That means that my life is public. I’m used to it. It comes with the territory.

“What makes it so difficult is to hear you say things like: I’d like to call my mother, or I love my mother but don’t speak to her, or I think she has my nanny’s phone number,” continues Candy. “I don’t want a reunion via talk show or to speak through the press. I want a relationship with you and my grandchildren.”

It is signed, “I am hopeful. Love, Mom.”

[From People.com]

If it weren’t well documented that these two aren’t speaking to each other, I’d think this was a publicity stunt to promote both books. Not that I wouldn’t put it past either of them. Mothers and daughters have conflicts every day. If it weren’t for Aaron Spelling and his money, nobody would give a crap about either one of these people. But clearly, there are some longstanding issues here. It doesn’t seem like Candy Spelling thinks she’s done anything wrong, and Tori seems happy enough without having her mother in her life. So who knows if anything will come from this? It still won’t make me buy either book.

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott are shown at the launch of her book, Mommywood, yesterday in LA. Credit: Fayesvision/WENN.com. Candy Spelling is shown promoting her book, Candyland, in NY on 4/6/09.

Tori Spelling claimed that she got just $800,000 from her father’s 1/2 billion estate and that a lot of it went to pay off debt she had amassed. She even held a yard sale in late 2006 to make some money. She then tried to make it seem as if she used her inheritance to buy the inn that was featured on her reality show, “Tori and Dean: Inn Love,” but that inn was rented. Tori’s estranged mom Candy Spelling is set to claim in her upcoming book that Tori got a lot more than just $800,000 in inheritance and that Tori was rich and set for life after making millions on her dad’s TV shows:

Expect more fireworks in Tori Spelling’s ongoing feud with her mom Candy – after Candy accused her daughter of flat-out lying about her inheritance!

The shocking claim comes in Candy’s new book “Stories from Candyland,” and The Enquirer has an exclusive sneak peek of the blockbuster memoir.

The nasty mother-daughter feud heated up after legendary Hollywood TV producer Aaron Spelling died in 2006. His $500 million estate was due to be divided between Tori, her brother Randy and their mom, his second wife Candy.

Tori said she expected to inherit a sizable portion of the estate, but she claimed Candy, who was the executor, approved an inheritance of just $800,000.

“But in Candy’s new book, she pretty much calls Tori a liar, saying Tori had been left much, much more money, although she doesn’t give a specific amount,” a publishing insider revealed.

“In addition, Candy says Tori was already ‘stinking rich’ and had made millions starring in her father’s show ‘Beverly Hills, 90210.’

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, April 13, 2008]

Candy definitely has an axe to grind after her daughter trashed her in her biography, sTori Telling, and you can see why Tori has an issue with her. Tori is a piece of work too though and is said to not even have visited her dad in the last few months before he died, and to not have attended his burial.

I’m inclined to believe that Tori really was broke before she got her inheritance as I remember reading that someone witnessed her unable to pay for stuff with two credit cards that were both maxed out. After that it’s possible that she got more than a million in inheritance and it’s also possible she blew that too given that she said she was unable to stop spending. Her brother said that he got just $800k too and that they knew that’s all they would be receiving well ahead of time.

Tori is hustling and making money her own way. She still has a reality show on Oxygen titled “Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood,” a jewelry line with HSN and another book coming out, titled Mommywood, on April 14. She’s not going away any time soon. Maybe if her mom had thrown some more cash at her she would have bought some respite from having to deal with tell-all books and seeing her daughter’s grinning mug all over the tabloids.

Tori and Dean are shown at the Kids Choice Awards on 3/29/09. Candy Spelling is shown on 11/6/08. Credit: WENN.com

Candy Spelling is playing the victim card relentlessly. The widow of super-producer Aaron Spelling is selling her 56,000 square foot mansion, promoting her memoir Stories From Candyland, and talking about how her daughter doesn’t want her poor old mother in her life any more.

Candy claims that Tori and her husband Dean never visit her and never let her see her grandchildren. Candy says she would have kept her mansion, for her grandkids, “If I had any hope that I would have a relationship with my grandchildren I would never sell this house. I’ve fantasized for years about a wonderful playhouse on the grounds for children.” Candy also claims she’s never even met her granddaughter Stella. People has more:

Candy Spelling is starting a new chapter in her life, which includes writing a frank memoir called Stories From Candyland – and selling the $150 million, 56,000-square-foot mansion where she’s lived since 1991.

Spelling, whose book is due out March 31, plans to move from her five-acre French Chateau-style mansion into a $47 million condo with 17,000 square feet; the same footage as her current attic. But she tells PEOPLE that she’d never have put Spelling Manor on the market if she thought she’d reconcile with her estranged daughter Tori, her husband Dean, and their two children, Liam and Stella.

“I don’t see Tori and Dean anymore,” the 63-year-old grandmother tells PEOPLE. “I used to see Liam, but no longer. And I’ve never met Stella.”

Spelling, who was married to producer Aaron Spelling for 37 years before his death in 2007, says she’s not sure why Tori is angry with her. “I’ve tried to talk to her, but that doesn’t work. She may not even know why she’s angry.” When called by PEOPLE, a rep for Tori Spelling had no comment.

Despite the family’s fracturing, Spelling says: “If I had any hope that I would have a relationship with my grandchildren I would never sell this house. I’ve fantasized for years about a wonderful playhouse on the grounds for children.”

Although she spent four years planning the home before she moved in, she’s selling it now because, “It’s just me in this big house,” explains Spelling.

Still, she hasn’t lost hope entirely. She made sure there is a playroom in her new condo in case the grandkids ever do visit.

“Someday my grandchildren will know who I am because of the trust funds I’ve set up, but I would like to be part of their lives now,” says Spelling. “I would have loved to have built that playhouse for them.”

From People Magazine

I don’t really know what to think of all this – I’m not a fan of Tori Spelling, but I don’t really think she’s a horrible, malicious person. Candy has said and done some pretty harsh things to her daughter throughout the years, and Tori might have just had enough. There were rumors after Aaron Spelling’s death that Candy was using Aaron’s estate in an attempt to control her daughter. There was also a rumor that Candy doesn’t really care for Dean. All of this seems like a half-decent explanation for why Tori has cut her mother out of her life.

Candy Spelling is shown on 3/28/09 at the Genesis Awards. Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott are shown on 3/29/09 at the Kids Choice Awards. Credit: WENN.com