Tori Spelling Says Dean McDermott Is ‘One of My Biggest Supporters’ (Exclusive)

Tori Spelling is sharing an update on her relationship with estranged husband Dean McDermott.

Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott attend Fox Winter TCA on February 06, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

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Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE at the Gala of the Stars event at the Beverly Hilton on Wednesday, Oct. 9, the actress, 51, opened up about the pair’s dynamic and how they’re co-parenting their five children after Spelling filed for divorce earlier this year.

“We’re really amicable,” Spelling tells PEOPLE. “I know in Hollywood people think divorces have to be ugly, ours are not. We co-parent really well, we’re good friends, and he’s one of my biggest supporters.”

The Beverly Hills 90210 alum filed for divorce from the Canadian actor, 57, in March, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason behind their split in court documents obtained by PEOPLE at the time. Their official date of separation was listed as June 17, 2023.

Spelling also spoke about how she balances and work and motherhood, admitting, “It’s not easy.”

“But hey, we all do it. My kids are really supportive,” she tells PEOPLE. “The older ones take care of the little one now, so it’s a built-in kind of community in our household.”

“But the hardest was being away when I was doing Dancing with the Stars, because that was full time every day, five hours a day and just all-consuming. So everything else is easy after that,” she adds.

The star — who shares son Liam Aaron, 17, daughters Stella Doreen, 16, and Hattie Margaret, 12, and sons Finn Davey, 12, and Beau Dean, 7, with McDermott — went on to share that her kids are thankful to have more of her time since she was eliminated from Dancing with the Stars on Sept. 24.

“I’m just back to being a mom now,” she tells PEOPLE. “They’re glad I can be their Uber driver and pick them up at all times now, I don’t have to go to dance.”

Spelling adds, “They were really proud of me, especially my older one texted me, and they were like texting me, isn’t that funny? No, the night I was eliminated, we were still doing the press line, Pasha [Pashkov] and I, and so my kids went back home.”

“That’s what I mean by texting me and they were just like, ‘We know this is a big fear and you step out of your comfort zone. You’re such an example for us and you can do anything you want to do, and it makes us believe so can we,’ ” she recalls.