Tori Spelling is on the mend following an intense eight-week-long illness.
“It has been hell. Hell is individual to all of us, but this has been hell. I know I have had a past of getting sick a lot, infrequently, but this one took me down,” Spelling, 52, explained during the Friday, February 6, episode of her “MisSpelling” podcast. “Eight weeks I couldn’t work. It all started with my sinuses.”
Things got so bad throughout the two-month period that Spelling felt “hopeless” when she wasn’t getting better.
“It gets to the point where it’s depressing being in bed,” she added. “I don’t want to be back up in that bed again.”
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Spelling explained that she picked things up from the “five petri dishes” that live with her, joking about kids Liam, 18, Stella, 17, Hattie, 14, Finn, 13, and Beau, 8, whom she shares with ex-husband Dean McDermott. (Spelling said during Friday’s podcast that McDermott was “super helpful” amid her illness.)
“I now know the name of every virus and bacterial thing out there. There was enterovirus, there was rhinovirus, there was Covid. It’s everything, RSV,” Spelling said, noting that one kid would get sick and then she would test positive for the same illness.
Spelling had “the worst flu-like symptoms you can imagine,” at first.
“It took me out. I was flat on my back. Then, it got so ingrained in there it went into my Eustachian Tube. I sound really smart saying that, but that’s your inner ear,” she continued. “It was both sinuses. It was an inner ear infection, Eustachian tube. Then, the vertigo kicked in. I’m still having vertigo.”
The actress was “on so many rounds of antibiotics” but “nothing was working” except a nasal rinse with medications.
“I would go to the doctor, they would do cameras,” she recalled. “I could see what was going on. I’m like, ‘Oh my God, that’s crazy what’s up there.’”
At first the doctors were telling her she was only getting “10 percent” better, which did not work for Spelling. Even when recording Friday’s podcast, Spelling said she’s “not 100 percent” feeling like herself.
“It was so bad,” Spelling continued. “I couldn’t even come downstairs. [The kids] would have to help me walk to the bathroom to pee. It was outrageous.”
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Several guest hosts — including former Beverly Hills, 90210 costar Brian Austin Green — have been filling in for Spelling on her podcast. She offered an update last month, sharing a few details about her illness when explaining her absence from the show.
Spelling joked that she was using her “sexy sick voice” at the time. “I know I have been MIA and it’s been due to sickness,” she shared during the episode released on January 7. (Spelling and Green, 52, had to cancel a January appearance in Las Vegas amid her illness.)
“I’ve literally been sick in bed since December 16,” she shared. “I know I haven’t done my podcast. I’ve been missing doing that so much. It’s such a passion of mine and I love telling my stories and interviewing amazing humans and just getting my voice out there and connecting with you guys.”
Spelling noted that the illness had been “very frustrating” especially because she was suffering with multiple sinus infections and bronchitis.
“I am frustrated with my body,” she said. “I am frustrated because mentally and emotionally I feel good, I mean exhausted emotionally but my brain is always going.”
