Two years after his divorce from Tori Spelling, Charlie Shanian penned a lengthy essay for GQ that described how their marriage ended (via People). He recalled Spelling’s treatment toward him, and wrote, “She picked a fight with me at a party, told me she needed ‘time and space,’ and was gone before I could comprehend what had happened.” Shanian described how he and Spelling met at her therapist’s office, where he learned that she was not happy with him. “[Spelling] only married me because I loved her and took care of her; she had purposefully shown me only 10 percent of her true personality; and, oh yeah, while in Canada, she’d cheated on me with her latest Lifetime-movie costar.”
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Shanian went on to write that when he read his ex-wife’s comments to People, he was devastated to see their marriage depicted as her being a “lovelorn wife trapped in an unhappy marriage.” However, what hurt him the most was learning that she was never in love with him. Following their split, the two cut ties completely, but years later, Spelling attempted to get closure.
