Shannen Doherty. Earl Gibson III/Getty Pictures
Shannen Doherty confessed days earlier than her dying that she had lastly realized how “fairly” she was as a younger actress.
Doherty mentioned the a-ha second throughout her look on an episode of the Charmed rewatch podcast “The Home of Halliwell,” which was launched Sunday, July 28, simply two weeks after she died of most cancers at age 53. Doherty instructed cohosts Holly Marie Combs, Brian Krause and Drew Fuller — who additionally starred on the WB collection — that watching early episodes of the present made her see youthful self in a brand new, kinder mild.
“You realize what’s actually attention-grabbing about going and rewatching these as a girl is, I used to be like, ‘God, I used to be actually fairly again then,’” she admitted. “And we’re not even sporting quite a lot of make-up. Granted, we’ve got actually good lighting and every thing else, however I used to be so skinny.”
Doherty starred as Prue Halliwell on the primary three seasons of Charmed, from 1998 to 2001, reverse Combs, 50, and Alyssa Milano, who portrayed her sisters Piper and Phoebe Halliwell, respectively. After Doherty exited the present on the finish of season 3, she was changed by lengthy misplaced half-sister Paige Halliwell, performed by Rose McGowan, for seasons 4 by means of 8.
Previous to her July 2024 dying, Shannen Doherty made a reputation for herself in movie and tv. The actress, born in Memphis in April 1971, began her profession as a toddler star on Little Home on the Prairie and went on to look at the hours of darkness comedic movie Heathers. Doherty’s fame continued to develop after […]
Throughout Sunday’s “Home of Halliwell,” Doherty famous that, again then, she didn’t have “one wrinkle on my face” and in hindsight, the footage “made me a bit unhappy.”
“Youth is wasted on the younger,” she stated, including that “now that I’m 50, no matter I’m, if any individual needs to do the maths — I imagine it now. Now’s once I would actually respect my appears to be like and just like the physique. I used to be so friggin skinny.”
She continued, “It simply took a bit factor like most cancers for me to lose some weight, however I’m nonetheless not as skinny as I used to be again then.”
Alyssa Milano as Phoebe Halliwell, Shannen Doherty as Prue Halliwell, and Holly Marie Combs as Piper Halliwell in ‘Charmed.’ Getty Pictures
On Monday, July 29, “The Home of Halliwell” shared a clip of Doherty’s cameo through Instagram. McGowan, 50, left a message within the feedback part, writing, “Ahhh it’s so not actual that she’s gone. I maintain considering I’ll see her in 2 weeks. It’s actual however not actual. Even at this late stage her stunning thoughts so sharp, it by no means felt potential.”
For Shannen Doherty, it was necessary to be “as sincere as potential” about her struggle towards most cancers. The actress first battled breast most cancers between March 2015 and April 2017, and he or she revealed in February 2020 that the sickness had returned. “It’s going to come back out in a matter of days or per week that — […]
Combs has additionally mourned Doherty on-line, writing through Instagram on July 20, “Shannen promised to hang-out me however I assumed she’d be occupied with a number of others at first. Alas I’m positive it should present up when and the place I least count on it. My rock.”
Whereas Combs and McGowan had a decades-long friendship with Doherty, her relationship with Milano was extra advanced; Doherty claimed that the Who’s the Boss alum was partially guilty for her being prematurely let go from Charmed and the pair have had a contentious dynamic for years. Regardless of their ups and downs, Milano paid tribute to her former costar in a July 14 assertion to Us Weekly.
“It’s no secret that Shannen and I had a sophisticated relationship, however at its core was somebody I deeply revered and was in awe of,” Milano, 51, instructed Us, referencing their longstanding stress. “She was a proficient actress, beloved by many and the world is much less with out her. My condolences to all who cherished her.”
Us confirmed on July 14 that Doherty had misplaced her battle with most cancers. She first revealed her analysis in 2015, and after two years of chemotherapy, confirmed she was in remission. The most cancers returned in 2020 when Doherty stated she was identified with stage IV breast most cancers, and three years later, it had unfold to her bones.
Shannen Doherty and Holly Marie Combs proved to be a lot extra than simply coworkers throughout their 40-year friendship. After assembly within the Nineteen Eighties once they had been each working actresses, the Charmed costars developed a bond that prolonged far past the small display. By means of forged feuds, well being scares and different surprises, the pair maintained a […]
On the June 24 episode of her “Let’s Be Clear” podcast, Doherty gave a tearful replace on her resolution to endure one other spherical of chemotherapy. “I’m having to return on chemo and it’s actually laborious,” she stated. “The thought of going by means of that another time has wrecked me.”
But she continued to struggle her sickness. “We stored going till we couldn’t go any extra,” her oncologist, Dr. Lawrence D. Piro, recalled on July 15. “The final dialog that we had, she was within the technique of realizing that issues had taken a reasonably vital flip. The dialog was about love and help and caring and nonetheless preventing by means of. She needed to proceed to take therapy and struggle by means of, despite the fact that her bodily situation had taken a little bit of a downturn. And so we did.”
