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I had an insta-crush on Brian Austin Green. Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth and I became friends. Ian Ziering and Jason Priestley seemed much older; we became friends years later. As for Luke Perry, he called me "Camel" because I had long eyelashes. Trust me, Luke Perry can call you "Camel" and make it sexy.
90210 wasn't an instant hit. But during the second season it started to take off. It kind of sucked that I didn't get to go to college. In fact, sometimes it felt as if I was reliving high school.
The center of this high school clique was Shannen and Jennie. Shannen had everything, but she could be arrogant and carefree. Jennie was outspoken when she thought Shannen was out of line. Sometimes they got along, but there were explosions. Once, they got into a fistfight. Shannen took me under her wing. A night with her meant going to the hottest club and drinking until the early hours. I knew she was a "bad influence," but I liked her anyway. Still, I saw her treating people in a way that made me uncomfortable.
Finally one day I took a stand. I took her aside and said she shouldn't be acting that way. She shot me a terrible How dare you? look. It was pretty scary. [By the fourth season] everyone wanted Shannen gone. The rest of the cast told me they had decided to call my father and say that she had to go, but they needed a consensus. I didn't want to betray her. Finally I said I agreed. When Shannen left, I felt the same as everyone, like I could breathe again.
For the most part, [even before Shannen left], the cast and crew functioned as a close family. And in the course of the ten years the show was on the air, everyone in the cast pretty much slept with everyone else. We all would laugh about it years later.
I cheated on [my first boyfriend] by hooking up with my costar Brian. Brian was the only guy on the show my age. We had something going (or not going) over the years we worked together. We were always fighting, making up, having fun, and hating each other. We were just young.
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