Shannen Doherty, the “Beverly Hills, 90210” star whose life and profession had been roiled by sickness and tabloid tales, has died at 53.
After years with breast most cancers, Doherty died Saturday, in accordance with a press release from her publicist, Leslie Sloane.
“The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones as well as her dog, Bowie. The family asks for their privacy at this time so they can grieve in peace,” Sloane stated Sunday. The news was first reported by People journal.
Her sickness was publicly revealed in a lawsuit filed in 2015 in opposition to her former enterprise managers, during which she alleged they mismanaged her cash and allowed her medical insurance to lapse. She later shared intimate particulars of her remedy following a single mastectomy. In December 2016, she posted a photograph of her first day of radiation, calling the remedy “frightening” for her.
In February 2020, Doherty revealed that the most cancers had returned and was at Stage 4. She stated she got here ahead as a result of her well being circumstances may come out in courtroom. The actor had sued insurance coverage big State Farm after her California residence was broken in a hearth in 2018.
“I have no idea how long I’m going to be on the chemo for. … That’s not something that I can predict, it’s not something my doctors can predict. And it’s scary, it’s like a big wake-up call,” Doherty stated on a late June episode of her podcast “Let’s Be Clear,” including {that a} current change within the form of her most cancers cells meant there have been new remedy protocols for her to attempt. “For the first time in a couple months probably, I feel hopeful because there are so many more protocols now, whereas before I was hopeful — but I was still getting prepared.”
A local of Memphis, Tennessee, Doherty moved to Los Angeles along with her household at age 7 and, inside just a few years, grew to become an actor.
“It was completely my decision,” she instructed The Associated Press in a 1994 interview. “My parents never pushed me into anything. They support me. It really wouldn’t matter if I was a professional soccer player — they’d still be as supportive and loving.”
As a baby star, she labored steadily in such TV sequence as “Little House on the Prairie,” during which she performed Jenny Wilder. She detoured as a young person to the large display screen in “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (1985) and “Heathers.”
In 1990, the doe-eyed, dark-haired actor received her breakout function as Brenda Walsh in producer Aaron Spelling’s hit teenage melodrama set in posh Beverly Hills. She and Jason Priestley’s Brandon, Brenda’s twin brother, had been fish-out-of-water Midwesterners.
But Doherty’s fame got here with media scrutiny and accounts of outbursts, consuming and impulsiveness — the latter most notably after a really temporary marriage to actor George Hamilton’s son, Ashley. Doherty’s second marriage, in 2002, was to Rick Salomon and was annulled inside a 12 months. In 2011, Doherty married photographer Kurt Iswarienko. She filed for divorce in April 2023.
She left “Beverly Hills, 90210” on the finish of its fourth season in 1994 (the present aired till 2000), reportedly eliminated by Spelling due to conflicts along with her co-stars and persistent lateness.
But in her 1994 AP interview, Doherty described her life as peaceable.
“It must be, if you pick up the Enquirer and find the only thing they can write about me is that I installed a pay phone next to my house and was seen at Stroud’s (a discount bed-and-bath chain) buying $1,400 worth of bed linens and wouldn’t go to an expensive store,” she stated. “It must be calm if they’re pulling that stuff out of their heads.”
Three years later, in 1997, Doherty was sentenced to anger-management counseling by a Beverly Hills Municipal Court choose after she allegedly smashed a beer bottle onto a person’s windshield throughout a quarrel. After a 2001 drunken driving arrest, she pleaded no contest and was ordered to serve 5 days in a work-release program.
Doherty reunited with Spelling when he solid her in 1998 as Prue Halliwell in “Charmed.” In an AP interview that 12 months, the actor expressed regrets about her previous.
“I did bring a lot of it on myself,” Doherty stated. “I don’t think I can point fingers and say, ‘Oh, YOU’RE to blame.’ And I don’t do that with myself, either. Because I was just growing up.”
Her persona was “grotesquely misconstrued” by the media, Doherty added.
Spelling stated on the time that their relationship was by no means as dangerous as some made it appear.
“We had a few bumps along the road, but golly, who doesn’t?” stated Spelling, who died in 2006. “Everything Shannen did was blown out of proportion by the rag sheets.”
Doherty starred with Holly Marie Combs and Alyssa Milano in “Charmed” from 1998-2001, at which level her character was changed by one performed by Rose McGowan. Doherty appeared within the “90210” sequel sequence seven years later and competed on “Dancing with the Stars” in 2010. She additionally labored on the third “Beverly Hills, 90210” reboot, “BH90210,” a meta send-up that reunited a lot of the unique solid and aired for one season in 2019.
She additionally appeared in a tribute episode of “Riverdale” devoted to that present’s star — and her late “Beverly Hills, 90210” on-screen love curiosity — Luke Perry.
Doherty struggled to recapture her “Beverly Hills, 90210” star standing, however labored in big-screen movies together with “Mallrats” and “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” and in such TV films as “A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story,” during which she performed the “Gone with the Wind” writer. A nadir was “Blindfold: Acts of Obsession,” an erotic thriller reverse Judd Nelson.
Doherty’s lawsuit in opposition to her ex-business managers was settled in 2016. She was open concerning the toll that most cancers was taking. She posted pictures that confirmed the baldness that adopted remedy and, in an August 2016 interview with “Entertainment Tonight,” shared her fears.
“The unknown is always the scariest part,” she stated. “Is the chemo going to work? Is the radiation going to work?” she stated. “Pain is manageable, you know living without a breast is manageable, it’s the worry of your future and how your future is going to affect the people that you love.”
Doherty advocated for most cancers consciousness and care, and spoke to the AP in 2021 about how spending years with the illness affected her life and sense of optimism.
“When you get something like cancer, your tolerance for drama is zero. I don’t like people wasting my time. I don’t like negativity,” she stated. “It’s odd because I think if you look back, you’re like, ‘Oh, gosh, it’s so much drama around her,’ but I don’t think I was necessarily into the drama. I just think if we took young 18-year-old Shannon, 19-year-old Shannon, and we took her and planted her like right now, I would be a nerd and nobody would be writing about me.”
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