Shannen Doherty’s Charmed co-star Holly Marie Combs has broken her silence following the actress’s tragic death from cancer at age 53 on Saturday.
Beverly Hills, 90210 star Doherty had been battling breast cancer. cancer since 2015, when the disease spread to his brain in June last year.
Combs, 50, who played Piper Halliwell On the long-running WB show Charmed, about a trio of witch sisters, Doherty was praised for being a “fierce fighter to the very end.”
She wrote on Instagram: ‘My 31 year old soulmate. I feel this emptiness in my chest and I can’t catch my breath. A part of me is missing, even though I know exactly what you would tell me right now. I know exactly what you would tell me to do right now.
“I know that your immortal spirit will live on in me and in my children, whom you loved as your own. They will walk with your sense of purpose and pride.”
Shannen Doherty’s Charmed co-star Holly Marie Combs has broken her silence following the actress’s tragic death from cancer at age 53 on Saturday.
She wrote on Instagram: ‘My 31 year old soulmate. I feel this emptiness in my chest and I can’t catch my breath. A part of me is missing, even though I know exactly what you would tell me right now. I know exactly what you would tell me to do right now.’
‘They will be true and stand up for what is right. No matter what happens, they will care nothing. Your fire will live on in them and in the many other Charmed Ones you helped raise.
‘A fierce fighter to the very end. My most ardent champion. My loyal protector. My best friend. You taught me the meaning of family. You were and will forever be my sister. I love you.’
She accompanied the post with a series of snapshots of the duo in happier times.
Combs and Doherty had grown even closer in recent months when the former opened up about the behind-the-scenes drama between her, Alyssa Milano and Doherty on their hit series, Charmed.
While discussing the Beverly Hills, 90210 star’s abrupt departure from the series in 2001 after its third season on Doherty’s podcast, Let’s be clearCombs revealed that he had a meeting with the show’s producer, Jonathan Levin, about his co-star’s firing.
Combs said Levin told him: “We didn’t mean to, but we’ve been backed into a corner at this point; we’re basically in an either/or position.”
“Alyssa told us it was either her or (Shannen) and Alyssa threatened to sue us for a hostile work environment,” Levin recalled telling her.
On Sunday, Doherty’s publicist Leslie Sloane confirmed the actor’s death.
She accompanied the post with a series of snapshots of the duo in happier times.
The duo are pictured with Rose McGowan in February 2024.
“It is with great sadness that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty. On Saturday 13th July she lost her battle with cancer after many years of battling the disease,” Sloane said. People.
“The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by loved ones and her dog, Bowie. The family asks for privacy at this time so they can grieve in peace,” Sloane added.
Doherty, who played Brenda Walsh in the hit 1990s series, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.
Just two years later, the Charmed star revealed that the cancer had returned after going into remission.
At the time, she told Good Morning America: ‘In a matter of days or a week it will be known that I’m stage 4. So my cancer came back and that’s why I’m here.
“I don’t think I’ve processed it yet. It’s a bitter pill to swallow in many ways,” he said.
Last year, she announced that her cancer had spread to her brain in an Instagram post that showed her undergoing radiation therapy.
The duo appears on Charmed in 1998 with Alyssa Milano.
Doherty died aged 53 after a long battle with breast cancer (photo from 2019)
In October 1990, Doherty starred in the original series Beverly Hills 90210, but left the series after the fourth season in 1994. She returned to the show as a guest star in 2008 after its reboot.
Following the popular series, she starred in the witch drama Charmed. Doherty played Prue Halliwell, the eldest of the three witch sisters.
After directing several episodes of Charmed, Doherty left the series in 2001. She then moved on to reality television, appearing as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars and Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty.
She joined the 2019 reboot of 90210 and played the adult version of Brenda Walsh.
Doherty initially kept her diagnosis a secret, but after her co-star Luke Perry died suddenly at age 52 in 2019, she spoke out about her health battle.
Perry died on March 4 of that year after suffering a massive ischemic stroke at his home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.
“It’s very strange to me to be diagnosed and then someone who, you know, was seemingly healthy, to go first,” Doherty said. Good morning america in 2020. ‘It was really shocking.’