Actress Tori Spelling, best known for her role on Beverly Hills, 90210 and as the daughter of legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling, recently shared a startling personal revelation: she doesn’t drink water at all, and she doesn’t completely understand how she’s surviving without it.
On a recent episode of her podcast misSPELLING, Spelling devoted an entire discussion to what she described as her “aversion” to water and other liquids. “First of all, I don’t drink water — and when I say I don’t drink water, I don’t drink water,” she explained. “Our body is comprised of 75 percent water. So I like to say I’m an anomaly… how I’m still living, no one knows.”
Rather than calling it a fear of water, Spelling said she prefers to frame it as simply hating water, a preference she says goes far beyond the average distaste for plain H₂O. She even compared herself humorously to a cactus, able to survive on minimal hydration.
Spelling also revealed that her aversion extends beyond plain water to liquids in general, especially when handed to her by someone else. On the podcast, she recounted a recent moment with her ex-husband Dean McDermott: he brought her a ginger ale, and she immediately suspected it had been tampered with. She explained that anyone who takes “too long” delivering a drink triggers her irrational thought that it might be poisoned.
Spelling traced part of this unusual attitude back to her childhood, when her mother mixed baby aspirin with Coca-Cola syrup as a way to help her take medicine. That early experience, she joked, may have laid the groundwork for a long-standing discomfort with liquids offered by others. “I don’t call it a fear of water,” she said. “I just call it…I hate water.”
Her candid remarks also touched on real health consequences. Spelling shared that she’s been hospitalized twice in recent months for fainting, which she suspects was likely due to dehydration — something medical professionals normally warn against. But even then, her dislike of water has persisted.
Instead of water, Spelling said she often drinks alternatives like coconut water, ginger ale, soda, or even wine. She joked that she can “guzzle a glass of wine in, like, two seconds,” whereas even a few sips of plain water can make her feel nauseated.
Her openness about this quirky and medically atypical habit has sparked reactions across social media, with fans both entertained and bewildered by her strange but unapologetic stance. Whether it’s genuine discomfort, deep-rooted anxiety about liquids, or simply a humorous exaggeration, Spelling is making it clear that she’s fully aware of how unusual her relationship with water appears — and she’s owning it with her trademark candid humor.
