Jennie Garth had to get her stomach pumped of alcohol and pills before ultimately checking into rehab following her painful 2013 divorce from Peter Facinelli.
The “Beverly Hills, 90210” alum recalled the scary and destructive time of her life while discussing her upcoming memoir, “I Choose Me,” during an interview with People published Wednesday.
Garth, who starred as Kelly Taylor for all 10 seasons of the hit teen drama from 1990 to 2000, acknowledges in her book that she hit rock bottom after her split from Facinelli after 12 years of marriage.
In “I Choose Me,” which is due out April 14, the actress recalls drinking so much alcohol and taking so many pills to cope with the unexpected divorce that she ended up in the hospital having her stomach pumped.
Garth, now 54, checked into the Canyon Ranch rehab center in the wake of the near-fatal incident.
“I noticed my light really dimming,” Garth told People of the incident and its aftermath. “I wasn’t 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.”
She continued, “And there was a weird switch where one day I just said, ‘I don’t want to carry this anymore. It’s impacting my relationships and how I feel about myself. I’ve got to let it go. I’ve got to forgive him.’”
Garth and Facinelli, 52, met on the set of the TV movie “An Unfinished Affair” in 1995 and tied the knot in 2001.
They welcomed three daughters together – Luca, 28, Lola, 23, and Fiona, 19 – before the “Twilight” actor blindsided Garth and asked for a divorce in March 2012.
The “What I Like About You” alum previously detailed the end of her and Facinelli’s marriage in her 2014 memoir, “Deep Thoughts From a Hollywood Blonde.”
“The ground that had been cracking and shifting finally split open and pretty much swallowed me whole: Peter came home, and told me that he didn’t think he wanted to be married to me any longer, and he thought it best that we separate so that we could get a better sense of where we stood with each other,” she wrote.
But Garth bounced back, got sober and moved on with actor Dave Abrams.
The couple married in 2015 and, despite separating for nearly a year following two consecutive miscarriages, live together in Southern California.
She and Facinelli have also since made amends and co-parent their three daughters together as friends.
He even took Garth and Abrams, 44, in amid the Los Angeles wildfires in January 2025.
