Tori Spelling is cutting deep with her new book Spelling It Like It Is. Reports say that the memoir makes catty attacks at Tom Cruise's former wife, Katie Holmes.

According to RadarOnline, Spelling's new book depicts Spelling's relationship with the former "Dawson's Creek" star. The two apparently met while Holmes was still playing Joey on the teenage drama, and Spelling was on "90210."

Spelling said that Holmes was "exactly what you'd expect" and "was shy but engaging, and altogether pretty adorable."

Years later, Spelling reportedly said she went to meet with vocal coach Eric Vetro to prepare for a role in a television movie called The Mistletones. There she bumped into Holmes, who was singing discordantly.

"... I heard his prior appointment working with him in the other room," Spelling wrote. "It was some actress singing horribly off-key ... I heard him say good-bye and then the actress walked out of the room. It was Katie Holmes."

To make matters even worse, Holmes was allegedly cold to the memoir writer.

"I didn't know whether we should hug or shake hands," Spelling wrote of the awkward encounter. "But the signal from her was immediately clear: Don't even come close. I instantly got nervous. We clearly weren't going to catch up on the last ten years. And we certainly weren't going to talk about her husband, Tom Cruise."

Spelling then tried to connect with Holmes over their children, but Holmes rejected the invitation.

"Then I was annoyed," she wrote."... Okay, I know you're busy. But you're in the public eye. Don't tell me you don't follow the tabloids. Don't tell me you don't know anything about other celebrities and their kids."

Next, Spelling made an astute analysis of Holmes.

"Then we stood there," Spelling wrote. "She was just plastic. In a perfectly polite way. ... My pits were drenched. I never sweat. It was that awkward. I thought, I know you're not a robot because you can't sing for shit ..."

Ultimately, however, Spelling felt sad for the Batman Begins actress.

"As my anxiety faded, I just felt sorry for her," Spelling wrote. "I hadn't expected her to reminisce, but this was a totally different person from the girl I'd met at Trader Vic's. I felt sad for her. Those paparazzi photos, the ones where she looks like she's miserable but putting on a happy face? That's what she looked like in person."

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