Overview
- On a recent 90210MG podcast episode, Tori Spelling said Hilary Swank came to her dressing room in tears after being told she was being let go from Beverly Hills, 90210.
- Spelling framed the story as her memory and said she had grown close with Swank on set, describing herself as a safe place where Swank confided.
- Swank, according to Spelling, worried the firing meant she would never make it in the industry.
- Spelling noted the twist of fate that the exit freed Swank to audition for Boys Don't Cry, which won her the 2000 Best Actress Oscar and set up a second win for Million Dollar Baby in 2005.
- Swank has previously described the 90210 firing as devastating in a 2014 Conan O'Brien interview and later called landing Boys Don't Cry a silver lining.