Jennie Garth revealed that Luke Perry was her “first true love,” a crush that began when the two played a romantic couple on the series Beverly Hills, 90210.
Garth, who played Kelly Taylor in the drama, made the revelation in a recent interview with People magazine. On the show, the actress was the romantic partner of Dylan McKay, Perry’s character.
“I think he was my first true love. Now, looking back, I’m like: ‘You were like every other girl in the world.’ Everyone imagined him as their first true love,” she said.
Garth admitted that the lines became “a little blurred” for her when it came to her co-star. “There were so many conversations and moments […] between those two characters, and I think I got caught up in it and let myself think it was real. I still believe there was something real there. We had a very special relationship.”
According to the actress, everything changed when the two married other people while the series was still airing, which helped them remain just friends.
Perry died after suffering a stroke in 2019, just months before much of the original cast was set to reunite for the meta reboot of Beverly Hills, 90210. He was 52. In 2024, the cast mourned again after Shannen Doherty died of cancer.
“It still doesn’t make sense to my brain. I live in a world where they are still very much in my mind. So it’s very, very hard to understand that they are not here physically,” Garth previously said about the deaths of her two former co-stars.
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