Tori Spelling blames ‘jerk’ son Liam, 17, for ‘porn massacre’ Elf on a Shelf prank

Tori Spelling candidly opened about a raunchy family prank from her teenage son.

The 51-year-old actress talked about a raucous family time on the Christmas Eve episode of her MisSpelling podcast.

She revealed that she got a shocking surprise one morning when her young son Beau, seven, showed her the Elf on the Shelf display.

She compared what she saw to the 1978 porn film Debbie Does Dallas.

‘I walk into the kitchen and the elves are there and there’s some porn massacre going on there,’ the actress said.

‘The elves were all doing various things to each other. Mouths on different areas, mouths where they shouldn’t be. Some were upside down, all around.’

‘There were beef sticks and cheese sticks … involved in this and there was some ranch dressing [and oil involved],’Tori explained.

Tori’s 17-year-old son Liam was behind the raunchy display, calling him a ‘jerk’ while also admitting she found it ‘funny.’

Tori had to stifle her laughter around her seven-year-old son and asked Liam to cool it with the X-rated displays. 

‘While I laughed internally — and that was really funny — and I took pictures and sent them to all my friends, I was like, ‘You gotta cut back on the dirtiness.”

That did not deter him and not long after she found the Elf in another compromising position.

‘The elves were all in a circle [surrounding reindeer] and I was like, “Oh, man, Liam, you’re a jerk,”‘ she noted.

In addition to Liam and Beau, Spelling shares son Finn, 12, and daughters Stella, 16, and Hattie, 13, with her second ex-husband, Dean McDermott, 58.

The Elf on the Shelf incident comes after Tori admitted to having a lot of ‘mom guilt’ over the fact that her and her kids’ lives aren’t stable. 

She compared what she saw to the 1978 porn film Debbie Does Dallas. ‘I walk into the kitchen and the elves are there and there’s some porn massacre going on there,’ she said

‘The elves were all doing various things to each other. Mouths on different areas, mouths where they shouldn’t be. Some were upside down, all around’

During a previous episode of her MisSpellng podcast, Tori explained that she’d been hard at work on a project for months.

She asked her kids to help out around the house and feels bad that the bulk of that work falls solely on her 16-year-old daughter Stella.

‘When I’m working and I’m gone all day, it falls a lot on my 16-year-old to really oversee the family,’ she said. ‘I feel really guilty when I come home at the end of the day.’

‘People have babysitters or nannies or housekeepers or things like that, but we’re just us — I know that’s probably really hard for the public to understand, but it’s true.

Her guest that day was Dr. Hillary Goldsher, a psychotherapist in Beverly Hills and Tori laid out her mom guilt to the licensed professional.

‘As a parent, financially, work was really stable for quite a long time. I had multiple shows and multiple product lines and brands and just was a workhorse in an empire.’

‘That’s when I had four of my kids and they were able to not see a different side. They were able to have a certain life that I provided for them through work and then all of a sudden, things weren’t stable.’ 

But now, due to the ups and downs of a career in entertainment, her income is ‘not financially consistent, nor is it stable.’

‘With five kids, I feel like I’m sorry. I’m constantly letting them down because my life is not stable. Their lives are not stable,’ she contended.

I can give love in abundance, but they’re on this roller coaster with me, unfortunately.’ 

‘There were beef sticks and cheese sticks … involved in this and there was some ranch dressing [and oil involved],’ Tori said on the Christmas Eve episode of her MisSpelling podcast. Seen here on December 6, 2024

In addition to Liam and Beau, Spelling shares son Finn, 12, and daughters Stella, 16, and Hattie, 13, with her second ex-husband, Dean McDermott, 58. Seen here on December 6, 2024

‘I’m so used to getting such outwardly harsh responses to my life no matter what,’ the Scary Movie 2 actress said.

‘They’re on this journey with me and I can’t keep things from them. I have children that are old enough that they read things online. They read the false stuff, but they read the semi-accurate stuff and they read the true stuff.

‘And I’m not saying poor me — here I am defending myself again — but I feel like since my soon-to-be ex-husband and I separated, it’s been fight or flight.’

‘It’s been constant with five kids,’ the Dancing with the Stars alum continued. ‘And whether it’s emotionally, physically, financially, we’ve just been going.’

‘When life keeps serving you things — unexpected things — on a daily basis, you’re, like, ‘Oh, I got past that.’ And then you have a plan, all of a sudden, boom. And it’s day to day.’