By Page Six | Created at 2025-01-17 15:19:42 | Updated at 2025-01-17 20:38:16
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Tori Spelling evacuated her home with five kids and multiple pets in “30 minutes or less” during the “apocalyptic” Los Angeles wildfires.
The “Beverly Hills, 90210” star detailed the experience in Friday’s episode of her “MisSpelling” podcast, telling listeners she does not “know how” her family managed.
While her 16-year-old daughter, Stella, whom Spelling referred to as her “co-parent” following her divorce from Dean McDermott, took care of her own things and helped siblings Liam, 17, Hattie, 13, Finn, 12, and Beau, 7, the actress “literally froze” in her closet.
“Here’s me, self-professed hoarder my whole life, and … it could be gone,” she said. “In the moment, I was like, ‘I don’t know what to take.'”
Spelling, 51, settled on the DIY Los Angeles tee she was wearing as well as a jacket she has had since 1985 from her private elementary school, John Thomas Dye, that does not fit “as [her] one memory.”
She also grabbed a seashell, crystals for “good energy” and her contacts.
“I’d rather my kids grab things they want than me,” the former reality star added, noting that there was not room in their car for suitcases. “Who cares about me? … I looked down at my Louboutins and my Balenciaga shoes, and I said, ‘What does it matter?'”
Spelling subsequently went downstairs to grab photos as well as dog food and water.
“We shoved everyone in the car,” she recalled before describing the arguments that “started breaking out” among her kids, with two of them packing their belongings in “ginormous” knotted blankets.
“I said, ‘Listen, everyone has a different way of handling things and what’s important to them. If we can get it in the car, let’s get it in the car,'” she said. “Then we got in the car. We packed everyone in. Everyone was saying, ‘I can’t move. I can’t breathe.’ It was stuffed.”
The “Tori & Dean” alum compared their “jammed” vehicle to “Tetris on the next level and not in a good way,” highlighting Hattie folded up in the back with one dog across her lap as she held a ferret.
The other two canines were in a cage taking up the entire back seat.
“Everything else, it’s just stuff,” she remembered thinking before the family of six “got out of there” and drove “right through the fire” to an Airbnb.
Spelling initially wrote about the experience via Instagram on Jan. 10, calling it a “non-planned panic.”
The previous day, news broke that her mom Candy Spelling’s Malibu, Calif., mansion had burned down in the wildfires, with the Tony winner, 79, joining Leighton Meester, Miles Teller and more stars who lost homes.
