Dean McDermott Almost Died By Suicide After Taking Sleeping Pills During Drunken Rage Amid Tori Spelling Split
17.11.2023 - 16:51
/ perezhilton.com
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Dean McDermott is continuing to open up about his dark past.
Earlier this week, the Chopped Canada host opened up for the first time about how his drinking problems ruined his marriage to Tori Spelling and caused his kids to be “petrified” of him. Now? He has a lot more to say about that…
Speaking again to DailyMail.com on Thursday (his 57th birthday), Dean revealed he has been struggling with addiction problems for pretty much his whole life — and it all led up to his issues this summer. After spending every night drinking tequila and taking pills while his wife and their five kids, Liam, 16, Stella, 15, Hattie, 11, Finn, 10, Beau, 6, sat in another room, he reached a breaking point on June 15 when he shockingly took to Instagram to announce his divorce — and then quickly deleted the post, making the whole world wonder what was going on. Recalling this emotional night, he said:
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He now thinks the whole thing was a cry for help — including his decision to swallow a handful of Ambien pills before going to bed, he continued:
Whoa. He continued:
The near-death experience and his family’s devastating reaction to the breakup post served as a much-needed wake-up call for him to seek help. He made the decision to go to rehab, and with the help of Tori, checked into Harmony Place, a luxury LA rehab center. First, though, he had to move his family out of their El Lay rental home which had caused them all to be sick due to mold issues.
After getting them to a friend’s home in Pasadena, he spent the next 15 days detoxing while packing up their home, he recalled:
Once at rehab for 40 days (where he shared a room