Jennie Garth offered her emotional appraisals of her Beverly Hills, 90210 co-stars in her newly published memoir I Choose Me.
Many fans are certain to flip straight to the pages recounting her feud with Shannen Doherty, who succumbed to cancer in 2024 at the age of 53.
The enmity between their characters on the show spilled over into real life, and with the benefit of hindsight, Garth has repeatedly remarked that the two actresses were 'pitted against each other' by their roles, with the media fanning the flames.
'We didn't always get it right - we were young, and it got messy as we butted heads - but there was this unspoken respect between us,' she wrote.
Now Garth has shared her recollections about her complex bond with Doherty, which had settled into a friendship before the latter's death.
'She taught me how to walk through fire without flinching. She taught me how to stand up to people who tried to shrink us,' Garth wrote.
When Doherty died, Garth issued a statement saying: 'Our connection was real and honest. We were so often pitted against each other but none of that reflected the truth of our real relationship which was one built on mutual respect and admiration.
'She was courageous, passionate, determined and very loving and generous.'
In the memoir, Garth also dropped a bombshell confession about her feelings for her other late co-star Luke Perry, who shockingly died of a stroke aged 52 in 2019.
'The truth is, he was my first love. I never said it publicly. I never even really admitted it to myself until later. But it's true,' she said.
'I had never loved someone like I loved Luke, in that way you love someone when you're young and unsure and everything feels enormous. Our relationship was up and down, intense and unfinished.'
Her new book also contains reflections on Garth's 'unbreakable' bond with her 'soul sister' Tori Spelling, another co-star from Beverly Hills, 90210.
'Tori and I have probably spent more time together than anyone else from the cast, and our friendship has deepened over the years,' wrote Garth.
'We've made shows, created businesses, thrown ideas at the wall together - and through it all, I always felt like we had each other's backs.'
In the memoir, Garth also dropped a bombshell confession about her feelings for her other late co-star Luke Perry, whom she is pictured with on a 1993 episode of Beverly Hills, 90210.
Elsewhere in the autobiography, Garth raved about the 'steady, older-brother energy' that Jason Priestly brought to the set of Beverly Hills, 90210.
'I saw how much he was like his character, making people around him feel safe and seen. Jason quietly kept us anchored, never asking for praise, leading with calm and kindness. I didn't fully appreciate it back then,' Garth admitted.
'He carried so much responsibility, and he did it with such an even temperament. Today, I admire the husband and father he's become; so many of those same qualities now serve his family. I must have kissed him at least a million times on camera, but the real gift is knowing the man behind the character. I love him wholeheartedly.'
She appended the label 'joy personified' to Ian Ziering, who went on from Beverly Hills, 90210 to become the leading man of the Sharknado franchise.
'He makes me laugh harder than anyone, and his pep talks are legendary. He's the guy who'll check in to lift me up, and I've come to rely on his motivational chats over the years,' the Illinois-born blonde said.
Meanwhile the 'little brother' of the ensemble was Megan Fox's ex-husband Brian Austin Green, inasmuch as he 'was the youngest, the baby of the group, and I was always looking at him with protectiveness.
She remembered: 'He loved to make us laugh, mostly when he would call out our silly antics; we would end up agreeing with him and laughing at ourselves until our makeup was running down our faces.'
By contrast the 'mother hen' was Gabrielle Carteris, who 'was a few years older and always seemed to have a solid sense of who she was, even when the rest of us were flailing. She didn't seem to need extra attention or outside affirmation to know her value to the show.'