Tori Spelling forced to EVACUATE her rental home as SWAT team arrest neighbor armed with AR-15 rifle – after cash-strapped star’s recent stay in RV and motel – while ex Dean McDermott parades his new lover around town

Tori Spelling was forced to evacuate the property she currently rents in Los Angeles on Wednesday after a hostage situation developed involving her neighbor who barricaded himself inside their home armed with an AR-15 rifle.

A distraught Spelling, 50, was seen ‘in a full sprint’ as she ‘rushed to find her children’ amid the realization that the SWAT team had turned up, onlookers said.

The Beverly Hills, 90210 star ‘looked visibly distraught’ as she was seen running towards the home she is renting, which comes after she and her family have spent the last months in cheap hotels and RV camps amid reported financial difficulties for the star.

Spelling (50) is a mother of five with estranged husband Dean McDermott (56) – Liam (16), Stella (15), Hattie (12), Finn (11) and Bea (6). McDermott is also father to son Jack, 24, who he shares with ex Mary Jo Eustace, 61.

Spelling – whose estranged husband McDermott was seen engaging in PDA with new girlfriend Lily Kahlo, 32, in Los Angeles earlier this week – was eventually evacuated with her children from the home, onlookers said.

According to onlookers, a man armed with an AR-15 was barricaded in a neighboring house “threatening to shoot” the hostages and law enforcement officers.

Spelling was pictured behind yellow tape amid a two-hour standoff that ended with the suspect being taken into custody and no one injured, onlookers said.

Officers were shown leading away a handcuffed man wearing a white T-shirt and blue athletic shorts as the tense standoff ended.

Spelling was pictured wearing a bright yellow graphic tee, denim blue jeans with suspenders, a black knit cap and large brown sunglasses. She was seen chatting with neighbors and making phone calls amid the conflict.

Spelling has not addressed the turbulent chain of events on her Instagram account since early Wednesday evening to her 1.7 million Instagram followers.

Her latest post this morning documented an outing she took with the kids to Universal Studios’ Hollywood Horror Nights. She said: ‘Thank you @unistudios for our annual family tradition of attending @horrornights … we had the best time!’

Wednesday’s tense events marked the latest in what has been a busy year for Spelling, who has faced precarious living conditions, physical illness, money problems and love life problems since her divorce from McDermott after 17 years.

Spelling, who split from McDermott, was seen in August staying at an RV park in Ventura County, California with her five children. Before that, the family was seen staying at a motel in Ventura County for $100 a night.

In May, Spelling left the rental home where she and her children were staying amid what she said was an ongoing mold problem that was affecting the family’s health.

The string of tough breaks marks a reversal of fortune for Spelling, who grew up immersed in Hollywood luxury, as her late father Aaron Spelling produced hit series such as Dynasty, Charlie’s Angels and The Love Boat, as well as Melrose Place, Charmed and Beverly Hills , 90210.

Aaron left behind a $500 million empire, and Tori’s inheritance was $800,000.

She has had a complicated relationship with her mother Candy for years: Aaron Spelling died in June 2006, less than a year after Tori made headlines in 2005 for having an extramarital affair with McDermott while they were both married; she to Charlie Shanayan and McDermott to Eustace.

She and McDermott eloped to Fiji in May 2006, just a month before Aaron’s death.

In her 2008 book STORY Telling, Tori said her family was disappointed she ran off with McDermott, and both mother and daughter have spoken publicly about their complicated relationship in the years since.

While things appear to be on decent terms – with Tori wishing her mother a happy birthday last month – it wasn’t immediately clear if Candy offered to help her daughter

Tori appeared to be on the mend after spending several days in the hospital over the summer with an unknown illness when she entered the medical facility on August 17.

On August 20, she posted a picture of her hospital bracelet on social media, praising her children. She then said: ‘Grateful and so proud of my strong, brave, resilient and kind to the core children who stay positive no matter what comes our way.’

Before her hospital stay, Spelling was seen working on a project in Los Angeles.

A source told DailyMail.com earlier this month that Spelling is “having money issues” and wants to return to the reality TV genre as a result.

“Tori is currently caught between a rock and a hard place as she tries to figure out what her next job will be,” the source said. ‘With the strike in full effect, she wants to do something else in the reality competition show world.’