Tori Spelling Says Ex Dean McDermott Is 'One of My Biggest Supporters': 'We're Really Amicable' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Tori Spelling at the Gala of the Stars on October 09, 2024; Dean McDermott.Photo:John Salangsang/Shutterstock; Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic

John Salangsang/Shutterstock; Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic

Tori Spellingis sharing an update on her relationship with estranged husbandDean McDermott.

Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE at the Gala of the Stars event at the Beverly Hilton on Wednesday, Oct. 9, the actress, 51, opened up about the pair’s dynamic and how they’re co-parenting theirfive childrenafter Spellingfiled for divorceearlier this year.

“We’re really amicable,” Spelling tells PEOPLE. “I know in Hollywood people think divorces have to be ugly, ours are not. We co-parent really well, we’re good friends, and he’s one of my biggest supporters.”

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Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott attend Fox Winter TCA on February 06, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.Amy Sussman/Getty

Amy Sussman/Getty

Spelling also spoke about how she balances and work and motherhood, admitting, “It’s not easy.”

“But hey, we all do it. My kids are really supportive,” she tells PEOPLE. “The older ones take care of the little one now, so it’s a built-in kind of community in our household.”

“But the hardest was being away when I was doingDancing with the Stars, because that was full time every day, five hours a day and just all-consuming. So everything else is easy after that,” she adds.

Tori Spelling at the Gala of the Stars at the Beverly Hilton.John Salangsang/Shutterstock

John Salangsang/Shutterstock

The star — who shares sonLiam Aaron, 17, daughtersStella Doreen, 16, and Hattie Margaret, 12, and sons Finn Davey, 12, and Beau Dean, 7, with McDermott — went on to share that her kids are thankful to have more of her time since she waseliminatedfromDancing with the Starson Sept. 24.

“I’m just back to being a mom now,” she tells PEOPLE. “They’re glad I can be their Uber driver and pick them up at all times now, I don’t have to go to dance.”

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Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott with four of their five children.Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images

Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images

Spelling adds, “They were really proud of me, especially my older one texted me, and they were like texting me, isn’t that funny? No, the night I was eliminated, we were still doing the press line, Pasha [Pashkov] and I, and so my kids went back home.”

source: people.com