Brian Austin Green Reveals Why He Texted Late ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Co-Star Luke Perry The Day After His Death

Five years after his death, Luke Perry is “still a big part” of Brian Austin Green‘s life.

During an appearance on Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone — which will air in full on Sunday, Feb. 4 — the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum opened up about the “tough” loss of Perry, who died in 2019 following a stroke, per Entertainment Weekly.

“You know when you have that core of people that are around you, that eventually you’re gonna get older and you’re gonna start losing people. That’s just a part of life,” Green explained. “But nobody ever expected that we would lose someone so early. And I honestly never expected that it would be Luke.”

Green, who considered Perry “the strongest of everyone,” recalled that he had “just come out of neurological stuff” himself, leading him to believe that he could “help him through this.” However, he ultimately was confronted by the tremendous difficulty of wrapping his head around Perry’s passing.

“To hear that he had passed was — I didn’t completely believe it,” he shared. “There was a part of me that couldn’t really process that that was real. I texted him the day after he passed, just because there was a part of me that was like, ‘No, he’s gonna answer back.’ Like he’s hiding somewhere, or something’s happened.”

While he “didn’t completely believe that” he would receive a response from Perry either, he admitted that “there was a big part” of him that “was hoping that that was the case.” Nonetheless, Green highlighted that their “relationship” and “connection” remain a constant, as he still thinks about him “almost on a daily basis.”

“When things happen in my life, I’ll stop for a second and think about him, and what I learned from him, and what I think his opinion would be of what it is I do,” he said.

Perry remains in the hearts of his other Beverly Hills, 90210 co-stars as well, such as Tori Spelling, who honored him on what would have been his 57th birthday last October.

“Could be a million people in the room but he always made you feel like you were the only one,” she wrote on her Instagram story at the time. “Good kind humans are a rare breed. I don’t know that many sadly. He was one. Happy Birthday. Missing You Always.”

The complete episode of Getting Grilled with Curtis Stone airs on HSN+ on Sunday, Feb. 4.