Tori Spelling Reveals Why She and Dean McDermott Slept in Separate Bedrooms for 3 Years Before Split

McDermott previously made headlines when he claimed that a pig sleeping in their bed had driven him away

Tori Spelling is setting the record straight on why she and her ex-husband Dean McDermott stopped sharing a marital bed.

After headlines about how pigs and other animals in their bed had driven the estranged couple apart, the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 50, explained what really went down on her misSPELLING podcast.

She began by prefacing that she and McDermott slept in "different bedrooms" for three years by "his choice."

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"Like, he gave an interview saying he stopped sleeping in the bed because of a pig. That is not true," Spelling explained. Though the couple did host a pig in their bed, she claimed that the animal only slept with them for one day when it was a baby and its previous caretakers claimed it needed to be cuddled.

"I was just following orders that it was used to snuggling and it needed that for a few nights," she continued. "But then when it peed between us in the bed, he was like, 'The pig's leaving the bed.' And I was like, 'Understood.' And that was it. That was the only night the pig was in the bed."

The actress claimed that the "animals and kids didn't come between us on the bed" and revealed that McDermott used to say that her tendency to sleep with the TV on drove him away.

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"I think I had the TV on for distraction, like, to distract from my life. Like, I would just zone out and be entertained, which is what my dad [Aaron Spelling] said that's what he always wanted to do," Spelling said. "Like, people have hard days, hard work, hard lives, hard relationships, and it's all individual. And when they get home, they just kinda wanna zone out and be entertained and taken out of their world, escapism."

She added, "So that's what I was just creating for myself. Because guess what? It's funny. He's no longer in my bed. No longer in the marriage."

Last week, PEOPLE confirmed that Spelling filed for divorce from her estranged husband McDermott after 18 years of marriage. In her court filing, the actress cited irreconcilable differences as the reason behind their split. She also asked for sole physical custody of their five minor children and joint legal custody with McDermott's visitation rights to be determined at a later date.

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In November 2023, McDermott told the Daily Mail that the couple "had been having problems" for a while but "it just got worse because we stopped sleeping in the same room."

The Canadian actor claimed their sleeping arrangements shifted when Spelling allegedly brought animals — including a pig and multiple dogs — into their bedroom. The actor also said a chicken was living in their bathroom.

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"We know dogs have accidents, and our particular dogs were having a lot. And I just couldn't deal with that anymore," he recalled. "So, I created a healthy boundary for myself and I said, 'I can't do this. I can't live and sleep in this kind of condition.' I drew that boundary for myself and moved to another room and things just progressed from there. There were no efforts to sort of remedy the problem to get back into the room."

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