Shannen Doherty

Shannen Doherty, Star of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed, Dies at 53' Devoted Son, Family, Aunt and Friend'

The' Beverly Hills 90210' and' entranced' star was first diagnosed with bone cancer in 2015

Shannen Doherty has failed after times of living with cancer, PEOPLE has verified. She was 53.

- It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the end of actress Shan nen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13, she lost her battle with cancer after numerous times of fighting the complaint," Doherty's longtime publicist Leslie Sloane verified in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE on Sunday, July 14.

“Devoted son, family, aunt and friend, his pet and dog Bowie, he was predeceased. The family asks for their sequestration at this time so they can suffer in peace," Sloane continued.

The Beverly Hills 90210 star was first diagnosed with bone cancer in 2015 and spoke candidly to PEOPLE in November 2023 about her Stage 4 bone cancer, which had by also spread to her bones, saying at the time that she did not" want to die."

“ I ’m not done with living. I ’m not done with loving. I ’m not done with creating. I ’m not done with hopefully changing effects for the better, ” she told PEOPLE." I ’m just not — I ’m not done. ”

Following her March 2015 opinion, the actress revealed just over two times latterly in April 2017 that she had gone into absolution, still, by 2019, the cancer returned. Doherty blazoned her opinion of metastatic stage 4 cancer intimately in 2020. also, in June of 2023, the actress participated that the cancer had spread to her brain and that she had experienced surgery.

Doherty posted on Instagram on June 6, 2023, participating in a candid and emotional communication that the cancer had spread to her brain. also, latterly the same month in another post, that she had experienced surgery in January 2023 describing the fear she felt ahead of the procedure as" inviting" to remove a brain excrescence, which she had named Bob.

“She was removed and deconstructed to see her pathology,” he told PEOPLE in November 2023.. It was surely one of the scariest effects I ’ve ever been through in my entire life. ”

Despite that, the actress was determined to continue working as she lived with the complaint.

“ People just assume that it means you ca n’t walk, you ca n’t eat, you ca n’t work. They put you out to pasturage at a veritably early age — ‘ You ’re done, you ’re retired, ’ and we ’re not, ” she said, adding “ We ’re vibrant, and we've such a different outlook on life. We're people who want to work and embrace life and keep moving forward. ”

Indeed, before her death, Doherty hoped to raise finances, and mindfulness, for cancer exploration, while at the same time demonstrating to others that people like herself, with terminal cancer, are still individualities with plenitude to contribute.

“ When you ask yourself, ‘ Why me? Why did I get cancer? ’ and also ‘ Why did my cancer come back? Why am I stage 4?, ’ that leads you to look for the bigger purpose in life, ” she said.

Her candid commentary echoed her words from a 2020 interview with Amy Robach for ABC News that vented on Good Morning America, in which she was inversely realistic.

" I surely have days where I say,' Why me?'" Doherty told Robach of the development in her health at the time." And also I go, well,' Why not me? Who differently? Who differently besides me deserves this?' None of us do."

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That interview with Robach marked Doherty first revealing her bone cancer had returned as stage 4 cancer after she had preliminarily gone into absolution.

"It will show in a few days or weeks that I am in the fourth stage. So my cancer came back, and that is why I am then," Doherty said on Good Morning America." I do not suppose I have reused it. It's a bitter lozenge to swallow in a lot of ways."

Although she gained praise for openly talking about living with cancer latterly in life, Doherty rose to fame as Brenda Walsh on the original Beverly Hills, 90210, which premiered in October 1990.

The actress left the show after the fourth season in 1994.( She latterly redefined the character with several guest appearances on the 2008 reboot 90210.)

Following her Beverly Hills fame, Doherty was cast as Prue Halliwell, the eldest of the three witches in Charmed. In addition to acting in the series, he also directed several appearances, he left the series at the end of the third season in 2001.

Doherty worked steadily throughout her career and indeed ventured into reality TV with the short- lived Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty and as a competitor on Dancing with the Stars.

In 2019, she inked on to join the television reboot of Beverly Hills, 90210, formerly again playing an adult interpretation of the character that made her notorious.

Though the actress said she was apprehensive of her stage 4 cancer opinion, she kept it a secret from the cast after the unanticipated death of her costar Luke Perry in March 2019 at age 52.

" It's so weird for me to be diagnosed and also notoriety who was, you know, putatively healthy to go first," Doherty told Robach on Good Morning America in 2020." It was really, like, shocking."

Doherty said sharing in the television reboot, which vented on Fox, was the" least I could do" to recognize Perry — and it was also an occasion to prove that she could continue to work despite her health.

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"One of the reasons I did 90210 with Luke and didn't tell anyone was to let people see that stage 4 can act," she explained.

Co-stars praised her strength as Brian Austin Green spoke to PEOPLE praising her.

""Shannen is definitely a role model and shows people that when times are tough, you can keep your head up and be a good person," Austin Green said. 

utmost poignantly, Doherty talked in her 2023 PEOPLE interview about her love of life, her gratefulness for being suitable to wake up and spend time with her family, musketeers and canine and her hopeful approach to the future.

" My topmost memory is yet to come," she told PEOPLE." I supplicate. I wake up and go to bed thanking God, soliciting for the effects that count to me without asking for too important. It connects me to a advanced power and church. My faith is my mantra. ”

She participated that cancer had made her more apprehensive of life and the world around her.

“I know it sounds inelegant and crazy, but you are nothing but respected and blessed.. We ’re the people who want to work the most, because we ’re just so thankful for every alternate, every hour, every day we get to be then. ”