{"id":583586,"date":"2026-04-14T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:19:08","slug":"jennie-garths-daughter-found-her-slashing-herself-amid-marriage-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/583586\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennie Garth’s daughter found her slashing herself amid marriage split"},"content":{"rendered":"

After splitting from her husband, Dave Abrams, in August 2017, Jennie Garth<\/a> hit a low point.<\/p>\n

In her new memoir, \u201cI Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose & Embracing Reinvention<\/a>,\u201d the \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210,\u201d star, 54, reveals that she descended into \u201cold patterns\u201d of drinking and depression as her marriage fell apart.<\/p>\n

One night, her eldest daughter, Luca, now 28, found her slashing herself with shards of glass from a framed photo of her and Abrams.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in my room smashing framed pictures of me and Dave, overcome by the pain,\u201d Garth writes.<\/p>\n

Jennie Garth says she retreated to \u201cold patterns\u201d of drinking and depression when her third husband, Dave Abrams, left her. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Garth and her daughters, Luca, Fiona and Lola. Jennie Garth\/ Instagram<\/p>\n

\u201cI was taking the broken glass from the picture frames and I was trying to cut myself with the jagged pieces. I was certainly not in my right mind,\u201d she adds. \u201cIt was almost an unconscious act, a form of punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garth, who rose to fame as Kelly Taylor in the \u201990s TV phenomenon, wed Abrams, who is nine years her junior, in an intimate California ranch wedding in 2015. But, their relationship was torn apart after she suffered four miscarriages and underwent grueling IVF treatment.<\/a><\/p>\n

The \u201cBeverly Hills 90210\u201d star was left devastated when her second husband, \u201cTwilight\u201d actor Peter Facinelli, the father of her three daughters, asked for a divorce in 2012. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Garth and Facinelli \u2014 seen at Disneyland in California in December 2010 with their daughters \u2014 were married for 11 years. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cDave said he just had to get out of there, and so he did,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n

On the dark night Luca found her cutting herself, she helped her pick up the pieces. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe took the glass from me, and cleaned up, while I buried myself in my bed, covering up with blankets of shame. The next morning, I woke up and my self-hatred was at an all-time high. I was being so selfish and self-indulgent, and now I was terrified that I had caused irreparable damage to my relationship with my daughter,\u201d she writes. \u201cI was hurting my daughter by letting her see me like that. This was one of those regrets in life that stay with you forever. Luca said, \u2018You can\u2019t go on like this Mom. We need you.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Garth (bottom center) found fame in her teens on \u201cBeverly Hills, 90210\u201d as spoiled Kelly Taylor. Her co-stars include Jason Priestley (clockwise from bottom left), Gabrielle Carteris, Ian Ziering, Tori Spelling, James Eckhouse, Carol Potter, Brian Austin Green, Shannen Doherty and Luke Perry \u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

Luca is one of three daughters Garth shares with her second husband, actor Peter Facinelli, who left her devastated by asking for a divorce in 2012. <\/a>Her first marriage was short-lived: She wed musician Daniel B. Clark, in 1994 at age 22. They divorced two years later. <\/p>\n

She and Abrams eventually reunited in 2019 after spending a few days together at a retreat in Joshua Tree, where he told her, \u201cYou\u2019re my person.\u201d They remain together today, but, she reveals in the book, he kept the manilla envelope containing their divorce papers in his truck \u201cfor quite a few years\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it represented something profoundly freeing to him: He has a choice. To be together or to split. He can sign those papers anytime he wants. We all have free will,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n

Garth reunited with her castmates \u2014 Luke Perry, Tori Spelling and Jason Priestley \u2014 at the 2005 TV Land Awards. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The actress was thrust into the spotlight at a young age. As a teen pageant girl in her native Illinois, she was spotted by a showbiz agent named Randy James. By age 17, she was living by herself in LA.<\/p>\n

At 18, she was diagnosed with clinical depression and started taking Prozac. \u201cFor a long time, I thought needing help \u2014 needing medication \u2014 made me less than. It felt shameful to be on that kind of medicine as a young woman who seemed to be living the dream,\u201d she writes of being on antidepressants.<\/p>\n

\u201cI carried the weight of feeling weak and somehow damaged through years of trying different medications. I tried them all, chasing balance and battling the belief that I shouldn\u2019t have to. What I see now is that the real strength was in refusing to give up on myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garth ran to the hospital to be with Perry after he suffered a major stroke in March 2019, but she was not allowed to see him. \u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

She also struggled with disordered eating and dysmorphia. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t until I came to Hollywood that I truly began to feel the weight of being looked at. There, your appearance becomes your currency,\u201d she writes. \u201cWhether it was restriction, binging, purging, or even using diet pills to curb my appetite \u2014 it was always something. Just like good old Kelly Taylor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her personal struggles led her to explore Buddhism and meditation. She now hosts the self-help and empowerment podcast \u201cI Choose Me.\u201d Both it and the new book are named after the famous moment in \u201c90210\u201d when her character chose herself over her dueling love interests, Dylan McKay, played by Luke Perry, and Brandon Walsh, played by Jason Priestley.<\/p>\n

In real life, Garth considers Perry to be one of her first real loves. Losing him was crushing. His longtime manager Steve Himber called her in February 2019 and told her Perry had suffered a sudden, unexpected stroke.<\/p>\n

The actress has laid bare all of her emotional past in her new book, \u201cI Choose Me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt an immediate urge to go to him,\u201d she writes. She rushed to Saint Joseph\u2019s hospital in Burbank, but was not allowed to see him.<\/p>\n

A few days later, Himber called to say Perry had died. He was just 52.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Gabrielle Carteris, who played Andrea Zuckerman on \u201c90210,\u201d held a memorial at her house, attended by Perry\u2019s kids, Sophie and Jack, and his wife, Minnie.<\/p>\n

Garth said she suffered four miscarriages after marrying Abrams in 2015, which led to their split. They reunited in 2019. Getty Images for Ferrero<\/p>\n

\u201cShe held me so tightly, no words needed between two once young women who had loved the same man in very different ways,\u201d Garth writes of their shared grief.<\/p>\n

Her best friend, Tori Spelling, \u201cwas the only one who really knew my true feelings for Luke\u201d, Garth writes. \u201cAnd while her heart was shattered, too, she knew I was struggling. Because of my complicated feelings, it was difficult to know my place in all the grief. I don\u2019t think anyone really understood our relationship, myself included. It was too painful, so I just put it in a box and buried it somewhere deep inside me. I\u2019ve never opened it and I never intend to.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201c90210\u201d cast reunited for a brief six-episode show in August 2019. Shannen Doherty, with whom Garth had a contentious friendship, seemed \u201ca little removed and preoccupied during the filming\u201d, and only later did Garth learn that her co-star\u2019s cancer had returned.<\/p>\n

Garth went through years of therapy and studied Buddhism after being diagnosed with clinical depression when she was 18. GC Images<\/p>\n

Doherty died at age 53 in July 2024.<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a very dark feeling in the pit of my stomach as I heard over and over the public\u2019s uneducated commentary that she and I were never friends,\u201d Garth writes. \u201cThat was not true, and it stabbed at me, as if my feelings and loss were being denied or wrongly felt somehow. I knew our relationship and I knew the truth. We had moved on from the pettier disagreements of our youth and we had forged a new, mature friendship in adulthood \u2026 I miss her. I always will.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201890210\u2019 castmates \u2014 including Ian Ziering (from left), Garth, Tori Spelling, Brian Austin Green, Shannen Doherty, Gabriel Carteris and Jason Priestley \u2014 reunited for a short-lived series in 2019.<\/p>\n

Decades after the show ended, she still feels a unique bond with all of her \u201c90210\u201d co-stars<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had\u00a0all gone through so much together, both on and off the set,\u00a0and while the show itself may have ended sooner than we\u00a0had hoped, the bond between us remained,\u201d she writes. \u201cThe shared history, the laughter, the conflicts, and the triumphs, all woven together over time, created something unbreakable. We\u00a0may not have known it at the time, but these friendships \u2014\u00a0complicated, layered, and sometimes difficult \u2014 would last\u00a0a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After splitting from her husband, Dave Abrams, in August 2017, Jennie Garth hit a low point. In her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[43010,236,91,88,252313,252358,7963],"class_list":{"0":"post-583586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-beverly-hills-90210","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-celebrity-news","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-jennie-garth","13":"tag-luke-perry","14":"tag-shannen-doherty"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583586","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=583586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}