Star of “Charmed” and “Beverly Hills 90210,” Shannen Doherty, passed away

The former star of Charmed and Beverly Hills 90210, Shannen Doherty, passed away. 53 was her age. Doherty’s longtime publicist Leslie Sloane shared a statement with People confirming the news. “It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13, she lost her battle with cancer after many years of fighting the disease.

Doherty disclosed last year that her illness had progressed to her brain. In a tearful video posted to Instagram on June 7, the actress made the big reveal. The footage, which was recorded on January 12, 2023,

Shannen Doherty undergoing radiation therapy. “My CT scan on January 5th revealed that I had Mets in my brain,” she wrote. “On January 12, the initial radiation treatment was administered.”

“It’s clear that I’m afraid. I have a severe case of claustrophobia, and I had a busy schedule. I am lucky to have wonderful physicians like Dr. Amin Mirahdi and great technicians at Cedar Sinai. However, this is how cancer might appear—that anxiety, the turbulence, the timing of it all. After fighting cancer for years, Doherty passed away on July 13.

At the age of eleven, Doherty made her television debut. Her first television appearances were as a guest on Voyagers! and Father Murphy, both developed and produced by Michael Landon. When she was cast as Jenny Wilder on Little House on the Prairie, she would collaborate with Landon once more.

She made the switch to acting in films in the late 1980s, appearing in the 1988 picture Heathers. She returned to television in 1990, starring in Beverly Hills 90210 as Brenda Walsh. Before being chosen for the popular series Charmed, she starred in a number of made-for-TV films after becoming well-known. She kept acting after Charmed finished, but the majority of the projects she did so on were reality series.

Doherty disclosed her breast cancer diagnosis in February 2015. She filed a lawsuit against her management company at the time, claiming that if her health insurance hadn’t expired, she might have gone for routine checkups and prevented the disease from spreading. She revealed that the cancer had gone into remission two years later. “I am aware of my blessings.

However, for the time being.. remission,” she posted on Instagram. But Doherty disclosed in 2020 that the breast cancer had resurfaced and was now in stage 4. “I don’t believe I’ve thought about it.” In many ways, it’s a tough pill to swallow, the actress said to Amy Robach of ABC News.

Doherty kept working despite the diagnosis, taking part in a Lifetime film, a revival of Beverly Hills 90210, and an appearance at 90s Con in March 2023. Doherty revealed that the cancer has progressed to her brain in a devastating video that she uploaded on Instagram in June 2023. “It’s clear that I’m afraid.

I have a severe case of claustrophobia, and I had a busy schedule. I am lucky to have wonderful physicians like Dr. Amin Mirahdi and great technicians at Cedar Sinai. But this is what cancer may look like—that anxiety, that turbulence, that timing—that’s what it can be like, she wrote. You battled so hard and for so long, Shannen. Many people found inspiration in you. We shall really miss you. I hope you get some rest in peace.