Tori Spelling's latest tale is etched in memory—but for all the macabre reasons imaginable. The former 'Beverly Hills, 90210' star recounted a harrowing encounter during a stay at a Canadian hotel with her estranged husband, Dean McDermott, an experience that came bundled with an unwelcome surprise.
"On one occasion, when Dean and I were still together, we found ourselves in Toronto, amidst our filming commitments," she narrated during the August 6th episode of her 'MisSpelling' podcast. "We had secured two days of respite and decided, 'Why not indulge in a stay at that exquisite Victorian hotel?' So, we did, bringing along my dog. It felt like a dream escape."
Despite Tori, now 52, painting their quarters as the "pinnacle of luxury" in the city, their idyllic retreat took an abruptly grotesque turn. "Musso—my dog—stumbled upon something while we lounged in bed, lost in a movie marathon," she continued. "We had just concluded dinner when we noticed him chewing on something at the bed's edge. Our thoughts raced, 'What has he got there?' Speculations flew—had he snagged our leftovers? Found a stray bone?'"
Tori recounted how she swiftly 'rescued' the object from her pet's jaws, only to realize with a sickening jolt that it was "a human big toe, cleanly severed." "The eerie part was its freshness," she reminisced. "It hadn't begun to decompose, and the cut was too precise to be anything but deliberate."
The actress, who shares Liam, 18, Stella, 17, Hattie, 13, Finn, 12, and Beau, 8, with Dean, was equally astonished by the hotel staff's nonchalant reaction to their grim discovery as she was by the toe itself. "Dean wrapped it in a napkin from our dinner and presented it to them," Tori recounted. "I believe they offered us a credit for a future stay. A future stay? There's no way we'd ever set foot in that place again."
Reflecting on the harrowing ordeal, Tori admitted to one lingering regret. "We ought to have placed that toe in a Ziploc bag," she confessed. "Goodness, I've always harbored dreams of solving a murder. Crime has always fascinated me. That could have been my golden opportunity—a Ziploc bag filled with evidence, a trip to the police station, and perhaps, a murder solved."
