Tori Spelling Calls Out Trolls For Doubting She Was Sick: 'Show Kindness Instead Of Doubtfulness'
By Favour Adegoke on December 26, 2022 at 7:00 PM EST
American actress and author Tori Spelling was hospitalized after she reportedly struggled with breathing and other major health scares.
According to reports, the "Beverly Hills, 90210" alum shared a photo she took on a hospital bed via her Instagram story. The selfie showed her flashing a peace sign and smiling at the camera.
Before now, Spelling revealed that she felt "too sick to work" via social media, for which she reportedly got a ton of "gaslighting" reactions.
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Tori Spelling Got Hospitalized
According to Us Weekly, the former reality star sought medical attention after having trouble breathing and experiencing "extreme dizziness."
Spelling uploaded a picture she shot while lying in a hospital bed on her Instagram story. She captioned the photo, "Here I am in the hospital since late last night," claiming she had "high blood pressure and crazy dizziness" and that numerous tests were being performed.
Spelling informed her fans that she simply wanted to get home to her children. The "Messyness" co-host has since deleted the photo from her Instagram story.
Tori Spelling Slams Her Fans For Doubting She Was Sick
The Spelling It As It Is author had previously admitted that she was feeling a little under the weather and that it was difficult for her to work.
When the 49-year-old actress declared her struggles with her health, skeptic fans criticized her, to which she reportedly took the time to respond.
"To all of you who gaslighted me when you were told I was too sick to work, well, here I am," her Instagram story read. She went on to slam them by saying, "How about next time you take someone at face value and show kindness instead of doubtfulness."
Spelling pointed out that she's the type that likes to work and finds not being able to work unbearable. "Remember, for people like me, not working is a nightmare. I'm a hustler and a workaholic. I always choose work," she said (via Us Weekly).
Her Son Beau Recently Fell Ill With The Flu
The "Melrose Place" actress's visit to the hospital comes just about two weeks after her youngest son, Beau, got sick a second time this month.
"Poor guy was out 3 weeks sick from school," she wrote on her Instagram Story, per Us Weekly. She then disclosed that she "finally got him well and back in school all last week, and boom, now sick again!"
Spelling revealed at the time that Beau, 5, was dealing with high fevers, had been throwing up, and was "so stuffy."
She asked her followers if their realities seemed to correlate with hers by saying, "Parents, are you finding this to be true as well? That our kiddos are just getting sick again as soon as they get back to school? It's like Groundhog Day."
Beau was just one of Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott's five kids to battle the flu before the holidays. The actress reportedly disclosed on December 12 that her other sons, Liam, 15, and Finn, 10, had "come down with something."
"At Dr. now with 3 sickies, I mean kiddos," the "Scary Movie 2" actress wrote on Instagram. She made a joke about the pharmacist filling their prescriptions, asking, "Weren't you just here?" to which she jokingly replied, "We moved in, you didn't hear?"
Tori Spelling Gushes About Her 'Blended' Family
News of her illness comes after Spelling praised her "blended" family following their trip to the "Disney on Ice" show.
She shared a photo of the family on her Instagram page and captioned it, "Blended is Better … our complete, beautiful inside and out blended family. And, what an amazing family tradition to all be together at." She also revealed that her family had been going to the show since her stepson Jack was seven years old.
The actress got married to former "Chopped Canada" host Dean McDermott in 2006, and they both share kids, Liam, 15; Stella, 14; Hattie, 11; Finn, 10; and Beau, 5. McDermott is also the father to Jack, 24, who he shares with his ex-wife, Mary Jo Eustace.
According to Spelling, both Jack and Eustace's other child, Lola, are living at her house and help make up her "blended family."
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