Throughout an interview on Garth’s 90210MG podcast with former costar Tori Spelling, James opened up about his surprising exit, earlier than Garth apologized for probably taking part in a task in him getting the boot.

Establishing the dialog, Garth defined she thought it was just a little uncommon how James’ character, Mark Reese, was launched to the present as if everybody had recognized him and had been associates with him the entire time, regardless of by no means having been seen or talked about within the earlier six seasons.

“You simply form of go together with it … I ran with it, did my job, it was enjoyable,” James recalled, explaining that he was truly supplied the position by Tori’s father, the late Aaron Spelling, after impressing him on a few failed TV pilots.

“He got here to me and stated, would you love to do 90210? I stated, ‘Positive, why not,’” he continued. “That was just a little scary although. There was just a little little bit of an intimidation issue going into that present. You had been an iconic present, for one, and also you had been like a household already.”

It is then that Jennie paused to “tackle one thing that is the elephant within the room,” following allegations from a former author that Garth did not really feel comfy with James and probably did not need to kiss him, with “chemistry” points being the reasoning for his exit.

“Let’s simply have a extremely open dialog, as a result of there are issues on the market that discuss why your character did not proceed ahead on the present,” she stated, with out completely diving into specifics. “We have heard a pair totally different takes on how that went down, certainly one of them was the chemistry issue between our characters. I am simply curious for you, what that was like. Did you suppose you had been gonna be on for extra episodes and it ended ahead of you thought?”

“Yeah, I did. And I keep in mind when [a producer] introduced me in to have a gathering with him and advised me they had been letting me go. I used to be fairly bummed about it, to be sincere,” he recalled. “However, hey, life is tough for all of us. We had been all younger, for one. I haven’t got any sick emotions in any respect, it was a terrific job, it was a terrific alternative … however I used to be bummed … I do know you and I, I believed we labored collectively effectively.”

Saying he was a brand new dad on the time and likewise coping with melancholy, he added that he thought he and Garth “did a terrific job” and “did some nice work” collectively.

It is then Garth appeared to confess that she did have phrases with somebody about their chemistry.

“I am actually glad to listen to you say that that. In seeing the character after which remembering after which listening to from totally different folks how that each one occurred, I really feel like, I used to be younger too and whenever you’re younger like that, you do not actually take a look at issues objectively from totally different views,” she stated to him.

“And maybe, me considering, ‘I do not really feel just like the chemistry between these characters is understanding,’ I did not actually take a look at how that impacted you or your future,” she continued. “And I simply I am glad to listen to you say that you do not harbor emotions about it, as a result of I might hate that.”

“You do not suppose at that younger age the impression and us being in that bubble that we had been rising up in, this bizarre energy that was appointed to us as the celebs of the present,” Garth added. “You look again, 30 some years later, like wow, how did that occur and why wouldn’t it be?”

James stated that, regardless of being let go prematurely, he nonetheless seems to be on the job as a “massive studying expertise” that earned him a stable paycheck on the time. He additionally advised Garth he so appreciated her acknowledging what occurred, earlier than each Garth and Spelling puzzled whether or not he ever had any conversations with Aaron Spelling about why his contract was minimize quick.

“It was the producer … he introduced me in, sat me down and advised me and I used to be like, ‘What did I do fallacious?’” stated James, including that he by no means spoke with Spelling about it. “He stated, ‘Properly, we simply determined to go a distinct manner.’ I used to be like, alright, that is high quality. What are you gonna do?”

“I am glad we had been capable of discuss that. I needed to speak to you however I used to be additionally nervous about it and simply questioning the place you had landed with all of that in any case these years, and if speaking about it introduced again stuff,” Garth stated because the podcast got here to an finish, earlier than providing up a real apology.

“However I am sorry in my opinion in no matter occurred, if that had a detrimental impact on you in any manner,” she stated, earlier than he apologized as effectively and counseled her for being “actually cool” by bringing him onto the podcast for this dialog.

“God is smiling at you,” he stated, simply because the episode ended. Hearken to the total podcast under!