Tori Spelling has opened up about being left with a skin graft from her thigh on her arm after her horror restaurant grill fall.
Tori Spelling has opened up about being left with a skin graft from her thigh on her arm after her horror restaurant grill fall
The ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ actress, 51, took a tumble in 2015 and landed on a hot hibachi grill at the restaurant chain Benihana – leaving her so badly burned she had to get part of her leg grafted onto her arm to replace dying skin.
She told her former ‘Beverly Hills’ castmate Jennie Garth, 52, on their ‘9021OMG’ podcast: “I did get a radically bad burn falling on a hot hibachi grill at Benihana on Easter in front of my entire family.
“I have a skin graft that they had to take from my leg.
“Not many people can say, ‘Hey, I’m wearing my thigh on my arm’, and I’m not even kidding.
“So I’m wearing a thin layer of my thigh on my arm because the skin burnt so bad.”
Tori added she was trying to get a picture of one of her children wearing a chef’s hat when she “took one step back, flew up on the oil and the rest is history”.
She added when she fell her arm was “sticking to the grill” and her family told her they could smell burning.
Tori went on: “You know when you fall in front of people and you’re, like, embarrassed, and you’re, like, ‘I’m fine’.
“And you’re really, like, ‘Oh, I don’t know if I’m okay’.
“It was one of those moments.”
She added other diners thought she’d been drinking, saying: “Like, ‘Well, it’s the celebrity.”
Tori also said even though she was in agony she went on with the meal as it was Easter and she is a “bad-a** b****”.
The next day, she drove herself to the emergency room where she said she was told by medics her skin was dying and she needed to attend a burn clinic.
Tori later sued the Benihana chain for what her lawsuit called “deep second and third-degree burn injuries requiring hospitalization and surgery” – before settling out of court.
