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Tori Spelling is feeling "overwhelmed" but "grateful" after a car crash sent her and her family to the hospital last week.
The Beverly Hills 90210 alum broke her silence on the crash in a video shared to Instagram on Tuesday (April 7). She, four of her children and three of their friends were taken to the hospital after being involved in an accident on April 2 in Temecula, California.
In the clip, Spelling — who shares five kids Liam 19, Stella, 17, Hattie, 14, Finn, 13, and Beau, 9, with ex-husband Dean McDermott — checked in with fans to share an update on how they are feeling as well as her relief that "guardian angels" were protecting them throughout the ordeal as the accident could have been "much worse."
"I just wanted to reach out to everyone. This took me a bit to post, because as most of you know, four of my kids and I and three of their friends were in a car accident a few days before Easter in Temecula," she said. "We're OK, but it's been really overwhelming. We are so grateful and so lucky because it could have been so much worse."
The misSPELLING podcast host described seeing the other car speeding toward her own and how her quick thinking to turn her car as quickly as possible helped avoid a harder impact despite the car spinning out.
"The driver that hit us was speeding, was going crazy, crazy fast. We believe he went through a light," she said. "Guardian angels were definitely with us that day because in a split second, I looked to my right and I saw he was coming full on, full impact into the side of our car. I turned hard left, as hard as I could, as fast as I could, to avoid as much impact on the children as possible."
Spelling added that she is grateful for the "great care" she and the kids received from first responders on the scene as well as the doctors who treated their injuries and is thankful for the love and well-wishes that have been sent their way since the ordeal.
"I'm grateful to everyone who has reached out and repeatedly checked on us and offered to do whatever we needed to get us through this and all the blessings everyone has sent," she said, adding that she has "so much gratitude for life and the bravery of all the kids in the car with what they went through."
The Riverside County Sheriff's Office confirmed to People that deputies responded to the crash around 5:45 p.m. April 2 where they found two vehicles with collision damage. All of the car's occupants were evaluated at the site, and Spelling and the seven children were transported to the hospital in three separate ambulances and treated for cuts, contusions, bruises and concussions, per TMZ. No arrests were made.