Thank God it’s not my problem!” As far as his near-fatal car accident is concerned, the actor has made peace with it. I’m years old, happily married with two beautiful kids. “That’s not my problem – that’s Bieber’s problem. You can understand why so many of them have bodyguards,” he explained.
“It’s a much more dangerous world for a young famous person now, it’s mayhem. Look who’s on the cover of Been a long time since these guys have been on a cover together! #BH90210Ī post shared by jason_priestley on at 12:03pm PDT Priestley Nearly Died In a Car Accident In 2002 I felt like I’d wasted nine years of my life.” Priestley also talked about some of his reckless behavior at the time, including a 2002 car accident that nearly killed him. “I hugged the crew, picked up my box of stuff, went to my car and drove away. I did the first scene of the morning – literally with this actor who was brought in to replace me – and that was it,” he continued. “It was the fourth episode of the ninth season. When I left the show, it was so anticlimactic, it just left a bad taste in my mouth.” “Nobody would expect that you’d be an idiot to expect that. It was hard, being a young man in LA … I never had the temerity to consider that was a possibility,” he told the Guardian. “When I look back, I am surprised I made it out. Priestley has talked about his unceremonious exit from 90210, and how it was a reflection of his immaturity at the time. "It seems really incongruous with everything else that happened on our show, so I don't know what her experience was.Too funny that I came across this today of all days… what a difference 29 years makes! #90210onfoxĪ post shared by jason_priestley on at 11:52am PST Nevertheless, "I'm sorry that that happened to her," Priestley said. "She was in a storyline that I had nothing to do with," he said. However, he also didn't think they actually worked together while she had a role. "I always went out of my way to make sure that our guests always felt incredibly welcomed and I would always go and talk to them and make sure they knew this was a place where we wanted them to succeed," he said. Given his own experiences as a guest star, Priestley made an effort to include temporary additions on 90210. "I know that certainly…I never would have made her feel that way." "There is a very slight possibility that someone…," he said before adding, "I mean, apparently somebody did because they thought that maybe that was the thing to do." "I don't know what Jessica Alba's experience was coming on our show as a guest star," he reiterated. "We never thought we were MC Hammer."Īs for whether someone preemptively gave Alba that instruction without the cast knowing given how famous they were at the time, Priestley wouldn't count it out entirely. 6 during an interview on KiSS 92.5's The Roz & Mocha Show. I don't know who told Jessica Alba not to look at us," the actor said on Oct. "'Don't look at the stars of the show' was never an edict that came down on our show.
Some of the series' biggest names have since commented on Alba's claim, including Priestley, who famously played Brandon Walsh on the show. "It was like, ‘You're not allowed to make eye contact with any one of the cast members or you'll be thrown off the set.'" "Which was really strange when you're, like, trying to do a scene with them," the star noted. When it comes to Jessica Alba's recent claim about a stipulation on the Beverly Hills, 90210 set, don't look at Jason Priestley.ĭuring her recent appearance on First We Feast's "Hot Ones," the actress said that she " couldn't even make eye contact with any of the cast members" on set during her two-episode stint as a guest star on Beverly Hills, 90210 back in 1998.