Jennie Garth as Kelly Taylor
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Jennie Garth starred on Beverly Hills, 90210 as Kelly Taylor from 1990 to 2000
In her new memoir, I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose, and Embracing Reinvention, Garth reveals that she learned her head injuries from time on set may contribute to some of her wellness struggles today
Garth has previously opened up about one of the scary moments behind her on-set injuries
Jennie Garth sustained some serious injuries during her time on Beverly Hills, 90210.
In her new memoir, I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose, and Embracing Reinvention, Garth talks about struggling with depression and anxiety and delving deeper into the root causes of these conditions.
“I had been diagnosed with clinical depression at age 18, and I’ve been under a doctor’s care ever since. I’ve been on some form of antidepressant meds for most of my adult life,” Garth shared in her book.
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Jennie Garth and Luke Perry as Kelly and Dylan on “Beverly Hills, 90210”
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In her quest for answers, the actress, 54, did a SPECT scan of her brain and discovered a head injury may have contributed to her experiencing memory loss and anxiety.
“I thought about it and there were two times that I could recall as major head-related accidents: the time Luke ran me over with a jet ski in the Pacific Ocean while filming a scene together, and the time a huge tripod-mounted light fell directly on my head and knocked me over on the set of 90210. Accidents happen on sets; there wasn’t any wrongdoing. But still, maybe they’d had some effect on me,” she writes in the book.
Garth has previously shared the jet ski story, speaking on the memory at 90s Con in Hartford, Conn., in March 2025.
Luke Perry and Jennie Garth as Dylan and Kelly
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“We were in the ocean filming and then they took the jet skis. They said, ‘Get on these and go into the shore for lunch,’ right? So, we got on the back of the jet skis and that’s when we had the bodyguards. And the bodyguards were each driving a jet ski, but Luke didn’t want his bodyguard to drive. He wanted to drive it,” Garth began.
“There was a fisherman and then there was a line, and he went through it and yelled ‘Duck,’ meaning, ‘Don’t let the line catch you,’ and I was like ‘What?’ “
Her castmates joked she probably thought it was a real duck as she continued, “And I got tagged! It didn’t like decapitate me or anything, but it hit my life jacket and hit me off the thing. So then Luke came around and tried to save me, but he hit me in the head.”
Jennie Garth’s memoir, I Choose Me: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose, and Embracing Reinvention, is now available, wherever books are sold.
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