“Once I was Googling myself to find an article I’d heard was published,” she writes. “I typed ‘tori spelling’ into the search field and a bunch of options came up. One of them was “tori spelling net worth.” Curious, I clicked on it. Google thought I was worth fifteen million dollars. Fifteen million dollars! I didn’t have one million. We had some income here and there, but no savings apart from our retirement accounts.”

Explaining that she has a “terrible habit of going into denial” about financial matters, Spelling was forced to confront the severity of her situation . But instead of cutting back, she continued to spend big.

Spelling says, “It’s not my fault I’m an uptown girl stuck in a midtown life. I was raised in opulence. My standards are ridiculously high. We can’t afford that lifestyle, but when you grow up silver spoon it’s hard to go plastic.”