Tori Spelling and Brian Green scared friends with a “creepy” doll room in their parents’ basement

Tori Spelling says there was a room in her parents’ famous mansion that scared her friends.

In a new episode of her podcast wrong spellingpublished on Tuesday, August 20, the Beverly Hills, 90210 The former student talked about the 55,000-square-foot Los Angeles estate known as “The Manor,” where she lived in her late teens with her parents, legendary television producers Aaron Spelling and Candy Spelling, and her brother Randy Spelling.

While describing the home’s many unique rooms, Tori, 51, shared her memories of the “doll museum,” which housed her mother’s Madame Alexander collection, along with items from Candy’s signature doll line for QVC.

The basement room, which had a stage in the middle, also featured her father’s collection of “complicated” moving puppets, such as a clapping monkey figure.

“It was scary as hell,” Tori recalled, admitting that she used it to play pranks on her friends, which she and 90210 Co-star Brian Austin Green still talks about it.

“One time Brian Green and I and all our friends were there and I showed him, but I used to do this with all my friends,” she said. “He wasn’t scared, but I had a few friends I messed with.”

Spelling explained that she would lead people to the back of the house’s bowling alley, where the wall would “pop open” and reveal “all the mechanics” of the house.

“Everything was down there,” she continued. “It was like Oz.”

“It was dark and we weren’t allowed to go back there,” she noted of the hidden room that led to the doll museum on the other side of the basement.

Tori said that almost all of the friends she brought with her during high school found the experience “creepy.”

“They came to the doll museum and I sort of adjusted the lights so that they were perfectly dimmed,” she recalls.

“Everyone was scared,” she continued. “Scared. But my brother and I were teasing them. One of the siblings was leading the tour and the other one would come through the door, go to the back and yell ‘Whoa!'”

Candy sold the house in 2011, five years after the death of her husband Aaron, who produced more than 200 films and television shows, including Starsky and Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, The Love Boat, Vegas, Hart to Hart, Dynasty, TJ Hooker, Fantasy Island, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place And Charmed.

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When Candy put the villa up for sale in 2009, she talked about the doll museum in an interview with PEOPLE.

“I first collected dolls for Tori when she was a little girl,” she said. “But she told me she was scared of them – she felt like they were watching her in her room.”

Tori previously reminisced about the house, which also has a bar, a billiards room, a games room and two gift wrapping rooms on her 90210MG She said on the podcast that she had “never seen every room” of the house, even though she had lived there for two years since she was 17.

“Honestly, there was a wing where all of my mom’s staff lived, and I just remember her saying, ‘Oh, they need privacy.’ So she never actually showed it to me,” Tori said in 2022. “I didn’t see it before they moved in, and when they were there, she said, ‘That’s kind of off limits because they live there.'”

The home was last listed for sale in 2022 for a record-breaking price of $165 million. The owner of the property – which sits on 4.7 acres and has 123 rooms – was unknown at the time, as it was last purchased by a limited liability company.