While some friendships end in a spectacular falling out, many others simply result in people gradually and almost inexplicably drifting into cold separation, mutual alienation, and finally silence.
That’s apparently what happened to “Beverly Hills, 90210” co-stars Tori Spelling and Brian Austin Green, who appeared on a recent episode of Green’s “Oldish” podcast and talked about how they didn’t speak to each other for nearly 20 years after the groundbreaking series’ finale in 2000.
In the hit series, Spelling played Donna Martin, while Green took on the role of David Silver. The two spent so much time together on set that they said they had originally planned to vacation together in the coming years, USA Today reports.
“We were so close. We grew up together and were such good friends,” Spelling said. “It was almost like a divorce or something. Like, ‘Oh my God, it’s time to move on,’ but I’m also losing the person that I’m with every day and have this connection with, and what’s going to happen now?”
Green went on to explain that he made an effort to maintain the friendship after the show ended, but that Spelling didn’t seem very interested in giving back. “I really tried to visit her. I called you,” he said on the podcast. “When that’s not reciprocated, at some point you just give up and think, ‘Okay, maybe there’s something going on and she needs time.'”
Spelling speculated that she may have “shied away” because Green had developed an aversion to Vincent Young, her colleague 90210 Star and Spelling’s boyfriend at the time of the series’ end. While Green said he didn’t think it was a “good relationship,” Spelling admitted she also had a problem with some aspects of his relationship with then-girlfriend Vanessa Marcil, another alum of the series with whom Green eventually had a child.
Overall, however, they agree that they have now patched things up. “We have the relationship we had back and I’m glad we can have this conversation now,” Green said. “We won. It’s a victory lap that we get to do. We did it and we’re back here.”
They previously paid tribute last month to Shannen Doherty, a former co-star who recently died at the age of just 53 after battling lung cancer during her difficult and very public divorce.
