{"id":573423,"date":"2026-04-09T07:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573423\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:36:10","slug":"jennie-garth-details-candid-about-sobriety-luke-perrys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573423\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennie Garth Details Candid About Sobriety, Luke Perry\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJennie Garth<\/a> is choosing herself in more ways than one.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe veteran star, best known for her work on Beverly Hills, 90210, leaned into the mantra to inspire a new podcast and memoir I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose, and Embracing Reinvention. To promote the projects, she sat for a revelatory People magazine cover story that dishes on her breakout role, a crushing divorce from Peter Facinelli, miscarriages and the shock of losing co-star Luke Perry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tCommenting on the tidal wave of fame delivered by Beverly Hills, 90210, Garth likened it to \u201cbeing in the Beatles,\u201d adding, \u201cThere was no preparation for it. It was scary and unknown for all of us, and it was like sink or swim, just survive and figure it out as you go. It was major on-the-job training.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso while on the job, Garth found herself literally \u201cfalling\u201d for Perry, who played her love interest on the Aaron Spelling series. \u201cEveryone imagined him as their first true love, but it really was confusing. It got a little blurry at times. There were a lot of intimate conversations and moments between these two characters, and I got caught up in it and I allowed myself to think that it was real,\u201d she explained of the Kelly and Dylan dynamic on the iconic \u201890s TV show. \u201cI still believe that there was something real there. We had a very special relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the show went off the air and they went their separate ways, Garth said they \u201cbecame just really great friends.\u201d Following a massive stroke, Perry died<\/a> at age 52 on March 4, 2019. His death left her \u201cparalyzed, unable and unwilling to speak\u201d per the book. \u201cIt was too big to comprehend, to devastating to accept.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso challenging to overcome was a 2013 split from fellow actor Facinelli. \u201cI spent a good amount of years being hurt, sad, just tormented by it, and it eked out into all aspects of my life,\u201d Garth told People. The spiral led her to a fateful night during which she abused alcohol and swallowed enough pills to warrant having her stomach pumped. After the shocking incident, she checked into Canyon Ranch rehab.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI noticed my light really dimming. I wasn\u2019t putting off good vibes. I could see it in the mirror. I could look at the negative impact that that kind of grief and anger was having on me. And there was a weird switch where one day I just said, \u2018I don\u2019t want to carry this anymore. It\u2019s impacting my relationships and how I feel about myself. I\u2019ve got to let it go. I\u2019ve got to forgive him,\u2019\u201d said Garth, who tells People<\/a> that she is now sober.<\/p>\n

\n\tGarth\u2019s memoir, from Harper Collins\u2019 imprint Park Row, will debut April 14. And the cover story, published Wednesday, details how she found peace after several painful miscarriages and an IVF journey with actor Dave Abrams. \u201cEven though it took a while, I\u2019m finally at a place comfortable choosing myself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennie Garth is choosing herself in more ways than one. The veteran star, best known for her work…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,252313,252358,127609],"class_list":{"0":"post-573423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jennie-garth","10":"tag-luke-perry","11":"tag-people-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}