Tori Spelling looks back at her “special” dinner reunion last month with mom Candy Spelling and brother Randy Spelling.
“I feel like life is too short and we forget that,” the “BH90210” alum told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday, urging others to spend more time with their families.
“I think because life goes on and so you say to yourself, ‘I have to make plans with this person, I have to make an effort,’ and then you don’t because your life goes on,” the co-host of ‘Messy’, 49, continued.
“It’s important now to really take that time, and I think I’m finally starting to get it.”
The actress made headlines in September when she posted a photo of her meal with Candy, 77, and Randy, 43.
“Keep those you hold dear as close to you as possible,” she captioned the Instagram photo.
Tori clarified that while many people thought she and her relatives “reunited” and “not” [been] together” for dinner, the trio just ate their first meal in 20 years without children around.
“My brother is married and has two children, [and] I have five children,’ explained the alum ‘Tori & Dean’. “So it’s always family stuff. But [that was] just the three of us, adult time. It was so special.”
Earlier that same month, Tori was photographed with Candy for the first time in five years.
The mother-daughter couple had been estranged since the death of patriarch Aaron Spelling in 2006, with Tori telling Andy Cohen in 2019 that their relationship had finally reached a “very good” point.
Tori’s husband, Dean McDermott, was also pictured with the duo in Malibu, California. The beach getaway came on the heels of his reunion with the “Mystery Girls” alum after widespread divorce rumors.
The couple, who share Liam (15), Stella, 14, Hattie and Finn, both 10, and Beau (5), have “different parenting strategies,” Tori told People in September.
“I’m kind of a mom with feelings, and he’s more procedural,” the author of “Stori Telling” said of their “co-parenting” dynamic, noting that both approaches were needed “to make it work.”
She and McDermott, 55, have been on and off together since 2005. Split speculation started in March 2021 when Tori was spotted without her ring.
Three months later, she told Jeff Lewis that her “Mind Over Murder” co-star was sleeping in a separate room.
Now that Tori has been seen with her husband again, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi told Vidak For Congress that the “Beverly Hills, 90210” alum is “really happy.”