Jennie Garth will always remember her precious pooch Pearl.
“It’s been a couple of months, I haven’t wanted to talk about it,” the Beverly Hills, 90210 star, 53, began in an emotional tribute to her recently passed pet that she shared with her 1.3 million Instagram followers on Monday.
“She changed our lives. My Pearly girl will be with me forever in the softest place in my heart, where I cherish all the people who have left but whom I still feel everyday. Thank you life for allowing me to feel love so deeply,” Garth wrote in the caption of a touching photo depicting her on the beach sweetly cradling Pearl’s snout.
Some of Garth’s celebrity pals and former costars sent their well wishes to the Illinois native. Garth’s former 90210 scene partner Ian Ziering, commented, “So sorry Jennie,” while Sabrina the Teenage Witch star Caroline Rhea also extended her sympathies, writing, “So sorry ❤️.”
Garth has long used her social media presence to make her love of animals — canine companions in particular — well known.
She first shared the seaside picture with Pearl last April, writing in the caption, “I don’t know about you but once in a while I need a reset! Life is always moving so fast, and sometimes I need to just shut it all off.”
That was the second Pearl post in a matter of three months, as Garth shared a montage of selfies with her beloved pet that February alongside a caption that read, “Doggie appreciation post! 🐕🦺 I love her so much I can’t even explain it 🖤 #pearl.”
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Garth has also lent her voice to animal welfare campaigns like Remember Me Thursday, an organization which seeks to boost adoption rates for orphan pets worldwide, and which named Garth their official spokesperson in 2020.
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The What I Like About You and Mystery Girls star shared in March that she’s still processing the deaths of her former 90210 costars, Luke Perry and Shannen Doherty.
“It still doesn’t make sense to my brain,” she said. “I live in a world where they, where they still are a lot in my mind. So it’s very, very hard to understand that they’re not here physically.”
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