Tori Spelling Says She's 'Wearing My Thigh on My Arm' from Skin Graft After Falling on a Hot Hibachi Grill

• Tori Spelling is looking back on the 2015 incident where she fell on a hot hibachi grill during Easter brunch
• On the July 12 episode of 9021OMG, the podcast she co-hosts with Jennie Garth, Spelling said the "radically bad burn" required her to get a skin graft from her thigh
• Spelling said she was trying to take a picture of her child wearing the chef's hat when she fell — and said she misses eating at the chain, which she later sued

Tori Spelling is discussing the aftereffects of her 2015 fall, where she tripped and landed on a hot hibachi grill at the restaurant chain Benihana.

After detailing the side effects of a chemical peel she had on her face with fellow Beverly Hills, 90210 alum Jennie Garth on the July 12 episode of their podcast, 9021OMG, Spelling pivoted to sharing the story of the time she burned her arm at Benihana.

“I did get a radically bad burn falling on a hot hibachi grill at Benihana on Easter in front of my entire family,” Spelling, 51, says, sharing that the burn was so bad, she had to get a skin graft. 

“I have a skin graft that they had to take from my leg. Not many people can say, ‘Hey, I'm wearing my thigh on my arm,’ and I'm not even kidding. So I'm wearing a thin layer of my thigh on my arm because the skin burnt so bad.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, serious burns may require “skin grafts to cover large wounds. The goals of treatment are to control pain, remove dead tissue, prevent infection, reduce scarring risk and regain function.”

The mom of five says she was trying to get a picture of one of her children wearing the chef’s hat when she “took one step back, flew up on the oil and the rest is history.” 

Spelling said when she fell, her arm was “sticking to the grill” and “my family said it smelled like something burning, and they hadn't even started bringing the food over.”

At first, she said, “You know when you fall in front of people and you're, like, embarrassed, and you're, like, ‘I'm fine.' And you're really, like, ‘Oh, I don't know if I'm okay.’ It was one of those moments.”

She added that other patrons in the restaurant assumed she had been drinking. "Like, ‘Well, it's the celebrity,’ ” however, she pointed out it was Easter brunch with family and friends — and she hadn’t even had a drink yet. 

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Even though she was in pain, Spelling said, "Like the badass bitch I am, I went on with my meal because it was Easter.” She said she then went home, hid eggs and made cookies.

The next day, she drove herself to the emergency room where she said she was told “the skin's dying, and you need to go to the burn clinic.”

Spelling later sued the popular hibachi chain for what the lawsuit called “deep second and third-degree burn injuries requiring hospitalization and surgery,” but settled out of court. 

As she told Garth, “I'm really bummed because I felt like I couldn't go back to Benihana,” sharing that her children Stella and Liam still remember the incident, and it was “scarring” for them. 

Spelling also misses the food, she said.

“There's nothing better than that salad dressing, that ginger salad dressing on the Benihana salads that come. Or them flipping shrimp into your mouth. I always caught it. I'm good like that. So I miss it all the time.”