Tori Spelling recounts smashing a loaded baked potato onto the floor during final fight with Dean McDermott

A perfectly loaded baked potato smashed onto the floor led to the end of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott's marriage.

Spelling recounted the heated argument between the two that led to her filing for divorce in the second episode of her podcast misSPELLING. A continuation of last week's debut episode, the 90210 star said she reached her breaking point after a day of bickering and trading insults — wherein McDermott allegedly made a dig at her that "he knew would really be hurtful to hear" — and consequently smashed the food item onto the floor.

"This guttural scream came out of me," the actress recalled. "It wasn't even like a sexy scream, like running in a horror film. It was beast-like. It wasn't pretty at all. I would love to have seen what my face looked like. I'm sure it was all contorted. And I was like, 'F---k you!' And I took my most prized possession in that moment, my baked potato. It was loaded to perfection, and I smashed it on the ground."

"I've never seen a baked potato fly like that," Spelling added. "Let me just say it was a wall to wall potato. It was on the floor. It was on the oven. It was everywhere.”

A moment of remorse followed before Spelling locked herself in a bedroom, noting that she and McDermott had been sleeping in separate bedrooms for about three years at that point. "His choice," she said. A "fired up" McDermott began "banging" on the locked door before he entered the bedroom in a separate outdoor entrance that Spelling did not lock.

"He came in and he was very, very upset, and he said, 'I want a divorce, this is over,'" Spelling said. And I said, ‘OK. Great. OK.’ I mean, he's threatened that a million times.” This time, though, McDermott had taken to Instagram to share that he and Spelling had separated. “My daughter found it first and said, ‘Mom, dad just posted on social media that you guys are getting a divorce.'"

Spelling added, "I felt like this giant rock had been lifted off my chest. I could breathe deeply, and I was like, 'Oh my God. He said it, so now I'm free' . . . he did it, and now I can move on. He's put it out there, Let's go. Yes. I needed this.' I couldn't do it myself.” McDermott deleted the Instagram post the next morning and the two "just went on as if nothing happened."

Spelling filed for divorce last month after 18 years of marriage, listing the date of separation as June 2023 — the date of McDermott's since-deleted post. They share five children together.

Listen to the podcast episode below.

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