Tori Spelling Used to Scare Friends with ‘Creepy As F---’ Doll Room in Her Parents’ Basement

Mar. 15, 2025

Tori Spelling.Photo:Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Tori Spellingsays there was one room in her parents’ famous mansion that used to frighten her friends.

While detailing the home’s many unique spaces, Tori, 51, shared her memories of the “doll museum” that housed her mother’s Madame Alexander collection, in addition to items from Candy’s signature doll line for QVC.

The basement room, which featured a stage in the center, also displayed her father’s collection of “intricate” moving dolls, such as a clapping monkey figure.

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“It was creepy as f—,” Tori recalled, admitting she would use it to pull pranks on her pals, which she says she and90210costarBrian Austin Greenstill talk about.

“One time, Brian Green and I, and all our friends, we were over, and I showed him, but I used to do this with all my friends,” she said. “He wasn’t scared, but I’ve had some friends that I have messed with bad.”

Spelling explained that she would take people to the back of the house’s bowling alley, where the wall would “pop open,” giving way to “the whole mechanics" of the house.

“Everything was down there,” she went on. “It was like the workings of Oz.”

Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling in 1994.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

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

Tori said almost every friend she brought over in high school found the experience “creepy.”

“They’d walk into the doll museum, and I’d be, like, adjusting the lights to dim them perfectly,” she remembered.

“Everyone was scared,” she continued. “Terrified. But my brother and I would mess with them. One of the siblings would lead the tour and the other “would pop through that door and go around the back and go, ‘Whoa!”

Tori Spelling, Aaron Spelling and Candy Spelling in 2002.Gregg DeGuire/WireImage

Gregg DeGuire/WireImage

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When Candy put the mansion on the market in 2009, she opened up about the doll museum in aninterview with PEOPLE.

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

Tori previouslyreminisced about the home, which also features a bar, a billiards room, an arcade and two gift-wrapping rooms on her90210MGpodcast, sharing that she “never saw every room” in the house after living there for two years, beginning when she was about 17.

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

source: people.com