Shannen Doherty Admits 90210 Firing Was All HER Fault!
23.01.2024 - 04:23
/ perezhilton.com
Shannen Doherty has been dropping truth bombs on her podcast. Which we obviously love.
But telling hard truths sometimes means looking at your own mistakes with a really honest lens. And we’re glad to say she’s doing that, too! After she and Holly Marie Combs claimed co-star Alyssa Milano was fully to blame for Shannen’s ousting from Charmed, this time, she’s taking full ownership for her firing from Beverly Hills 90210!
TV brother Jason Priestley stopped by the Let’s Be Clear podcast this time, and they eventually got to the touchy subject of Shannen’s firing from their hit TV show. And Shannen, now 52, admits it was on her. She began:
Shannen is, of course, talking about her marriage to Ashley Hamilton. The actor-musician has been pretty open about his drug problem from around that time — and the impact it had on his wife.
She realizes now in hindsight she should have been more open with everyone about what she was going through, why she maybe needed special consideration:
Her struggles meant, among other things, causing her co-stars to have to work longer days. So eventually she was written off the show, with her character going to school overseas. While Shannen takes accountability, she does make clear she wasn’t given an ultimatum, not an explicit one, before being let go:
Yeah, at the time she had been in the industry a long time — but she was also only in her mid 20s and in some ways just didn’t know how to handle these really difficult subjects.
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Jason actually told her he felt guilty about not being more compassionate at the time, but Shannen quickly stopped him and said her behavior was no one’s fault but her own:
It’s so brave of her to talk really candidly about