Tori Spelling is opening up about her children being badly bullied.
In a revealing Instagram post, the 90210 actress revealed the traumatic effects of bullying, which included panic attacks for her daughter and headaches for her son.
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This is Tori Spelling.
She’s most known for playing Donna Martin on Beverly Hills, 90210 and then taking part in the show’s reboot in 2019.
She’s also the mother of *five* kids, Stella, 11, Liam, 12, Beau, 2, Hattie, 8, and Finn, 7.
It’s quite the brood to take care of, but luckily the actress has some help from her husband, Dean McDermott.
Together, the pair have always shared the highs and lows that parenting brings.
For Dean, he does so on his “Daddy Issues” podcast, while Tori shares things on her social media.
For example, this past weekend, Spelling shared this adorable image of her oldest children, Stella and Liam, from when they were infants.
What wasn’t so cute, however, was what Tori revealed: the painful history of bullying her kids have endured.
“My two 1st born… they have been thru so much bullying I can no longer not share and express ourselves,” she began.
“Stella is 11. She was 1 in this pic. Innocent little being that only knew unconditional love, honesty, exploration, & kindness. Her beautiful heart, full of hope.”
“Between her last year at her elementary school or the 1st year at her middle school this human has endured enough bullying for a lifetime.”
The actress went on to blast her child’s former school.
“Her old school in Encino, we were told she is acting like ‘Patient zero’ and ‘she’s playing the victim’ & ‘we are talking to the parents of that said bully’ and ‘he is trying to change.’ He never did!” Spelling wrote.
She continued: “Never any consequences for his actions towards my daughter and other kids.”
“This child’s parents are on the board of the school. They give a lot of money to this school. Financially, we aren’t able too. So, they won.”
When she and Dean moved the kids to another school, “one that professed feelings and kindness as a priority,” the same issues happened.
“This time, my daughter was bullied so bad ( including comments about her weight and sexual things he said that my daughter didn’t even know about),” she wrote.
Thankfully, the school did expell the boy. However, Spelling writes that the “damage has been done.”
“She now associates her education with boys that have been so horrific to her. She wanted to empower others girls and be a business leader. She now has panic attacks and doesn’t want to return to school. This girl, 2 years ago told me she wanted to be President or work to empower women daily.”
Liam, her oldest child, has also been horribly bullied. It’s not just from kids, though.
“He graduated last year from Encino but not without the principal telling us he was ‘unmotivated’ & lazy. Poor guy thought from way he was treated by her that he was ‘stupid’. Beyond not the case,” she wrote.
“He is a hilarious, smart, outgoing, and a creative kind guy!”
Unfortunately, when he started his new middle school, which was the same one as Stella’s, he, too, experienced horrible bullying.
“He was bullied to the point that he developed severe emotional based headaches and stomach aches.”
She continued: “This school ( who did help with Stella’s situation) did not help with Liams. He continued to be bullied so bad we had to leave.”
Spelling then concluded her emotional post by writing, “Was hesitant to post this bc as celebs we are sometimes judged for having problems others have.”
Thankfully, that hasn’t been the case so far, as so many people have rushed to the comments on Spelling’s post to lend their support.
“Celebs or not this shouldn’t be tolerated in any school,” wrote one fan.
“No matter who you are…if you’re a Mama, your heart hurts when your babies hurt; maybe even more. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich, poor, famous, or anything in between. I’m sorry you’re having to go through these trials with your babies. As a teacher, it is appalling to me that nothing was done to help them,” added another.
It’s so heartbreaking to hear that Tori and Dean’s kids are going through this.
It just goes to show that celebs are real people, with the same kind of issues and feelings.
Thankfully, these kids have a strong mama to defend them.
