For Shannen Dohertyit is important to be “as honest as possible” about her battle with cancer.
The actress first battled breast cancer between March 2015 and April 2017, and in February 2020 she revealed that the disease had returned. ‘Within a few days or a week it will be known that I am in phase IV. So my cancer came back. And that’s why I’m here,” she said Good morning America at the time. ‘I don’t think I’ve processed it. In many ways it is a bitter pill to swallow.”
Doherty opened up about the emotional lows she has experienced throughout her health journey. “I definitely have days where I say, ‘Why me?'” she admitted. “And then I say, ‘Why not me? Who else? Who else but me deserves this?’ None of us do that.”
In September 2021, Doherty explained why she decided to share details of her struggles with her fans. “I feel like I have a responsibility in my more public life, which I separate from my acting life… to talk about cancer and maybe educate people more and let people know that people with stage IV are alive and well and very active “, she says. said during a virtual panel for her film List of a lifetimewhich follows a woman who makes a bucket list after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
When asked if she made a bucket list following her own diagnosis, Doherty said she didn’t: “I’m like, ‘There’s no bucket list because I’m going to be the longest-living person with cancer’.” she told the panel. “If I had to say one, it would be just living. That’s the only thing on my list at the moment.”
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