Jennie Garth has one major regret about her career.
The 52-year-old actress said at 90’s Con in Daytona Beach, Florida, over the weekend that, looking back, she’s not happy she returned for the “Beverly Hills, 90210” reboot, which aired on The CW from 2008 to 2013.
“I wish I hadn't done that. They didn't mean to be hurt,” she said, People,
“The producer was a friend of a friend of mine and I remember him coming into my living room, sitting me down and telling me it was the biggest opportunity of my life,” Garth said. “He asked me to do it and I didn't know how to say no at the time.”
He added: “But people were really nice and wished him all the best.”
Garth played Kelly Taylor on “Beverly Hills, 90210.” The show, which also starred Jason Priestley, Tori Spelling, Shannen Doherty, Gabrielle Cartwright, Brian Austin Green, Ian Ziering and Luke Perry, aired on Fox from 1990 to 2000.
Like the original series, “90210” follows a group of wealthy friends from a Beverly Hills high school as they enter adulthood. The reboot stars Rob Estes, Shenae Grimes, Tristan Wilds, Ryan Eggold, Jessica Stroup and more.
Garth, Spelling and Doherty all returned for “90210.” Garth's character worked as a guidance counselor at the same school in the reboot.
At 90s Con, Garth was joined on the “Beverly Hills, 90210” panel by Green, Cartwright and Ziering, who also expressed their thoughts on the reboot.
“I never wanted to do it,” Cartwright, 63, reportedly said. “I was very surprised that they were doing a new show. I was thinking, is it that they want it so much that you're going to try to reinvent it over and over again?”
“There's nothing wrong with that, that's it for me, we did that show for 10 years and now it's like, OK, I'm done,” Green, 51, said.
Nearly all of the “Beverly Hills, 90210” cast returned for 2019's “BH90210,” where they upgraded their original selves to the present day.
Perry did not appear on “BH90210.” He died at age 52 the same year the show came out.
Doherty, who played Brenda Walsh in the franchise, died in July at the age of 53. She passed away after battling cancer for several years.
The “Beverly Hills, 90210” cast members who were at a '90s con Tributes paid to Doherty during their panel.
“She's just an amazing example to me for everybody in how she put her challenges and her health stuff aside and really wanted to share her experience with everybody, and that was incredibly courageous,” Green said.
“It takes courage to go through such a difficult situation and be completely transparent and share it with everyone,” he said.
