Tori Spelling Questions Whether She's 'Technically a Hoarder' but Admits She Can't Walk into Her Garage

• Tori Spelling had an honest conversation with Dr. Robin Zasio from A&E’s Hoarders about her tendency to accumulate things, saying “I don’t know if I’m technically a hoarder”

• She shared that she has a “hard time letting go of things that I placed emotional value on”

• Spelling shared that growing up wealthy in a big home — with a lot of room for “stuff accumulated" — has made it hard for her to understand how to get rid of things

Tori Spelling is taking a hard look at her ongoing tendency to hold onto things — questioning if she’s really a “hoarder.”

On the Jan. 7 episode of her podcast 9021Omg, the actress had an honest conversation with Dr. Robin Zasio from the A&E show Hoarders about her emotional connection to her items and inability to get rid of things — a problem, she says, that’s rooted in how she was raised.

“I refer to myself as a hoarder all the time. I would love to redefine that word,” Spelling, 51, said. “I'm going into my next chapter, redefining a lot of words that people have a specific connotation with or a definition. And even though I call myself a hoarder, I don't know if I'm technically a hoarder.”

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This isn’t the first time Spelling has been honest about how much she holds onto objects from her life. Last April, she admitted she had about 50 storage units that were the size of “shipping containers,” with a maintenance bill so massive she had to sell off some of the items.

As Zasio explained, the problem with collecting things comes when “that clutter is interfering with one's life and the life of those around them.”

She said it’s important to ask yourself: “Is the stuff interfering with your personal well-being and the personal well-being of those around you, those that live with you? And are you also inhibiting people from coming over to your home or your work or your transportation or whatever that is where you are not feeling comfortable because either you're worried about judgment, you're worried about what they're gonna say?”

Spelling explained that part of her problem stems from her upbringing. ”We had a huge wealthy upbringing and there was room for stuff accumulated,” she said, explaining that her family maintained several storage units and she picked up that habit.

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“When I moved out on my own at almost 19 … I immediately was like, I need to get a storage unit. And all of the Christmas decorations go there. All the clothes I wear on 90210, I'm not getting rid of them. They're going into a storage unit, which, you know, just kept going and going.”

“I accumulate a lot of stuff. And this is my whole life. It's been a big, full, amazing life so far. And I used to have a really hard time letting go of things that I placed emotional value on,” Spelling said, adding that she’s glad she kept her clothing because now her daughter can wear the vintage pieces.

When she finally ditched her storage units, she says, she started relying more on her garage.

And, she admitted, “my garage, you can’t walk into.”

"I'm not meaning to sound defensive because I'm not. I want a solution," Spelling said. “I don't physically have the time. And I think a lot of what I call hoarding comes from my lack of time. And when I do have time, it's a vicious circle. Because with five kids now and being a single parent now, it's hard. And my priority list, that's not up there.”

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