Shannen Doherty won’t be leaving Hollywood while she battles cancer
Shannen Doherty isn’t about to let her ongoing battle with cancer stop her Hollywood career.
“She is full speed ahead and she is [doing] amazing,” a rep for Doherty, 52, confirmed We weekly on Friday, December 1. TMZmeanwhile reported that the actress has a “plethora” of events on the horizon to promote her new podcast, “Let’s be clear with Shannen Doherty.”
The news comes two days after Beverly Hills, 90210 alum shared that her stage IV breast cancer has spread to her bones.
“I don’t want to die,” she said People in an emotional interview published on Wednesday, November 29, adding that she will keep fighting. “I’m not done with life yet. I’m not done loving yet. I’m not done creating yet. I’m not done yet hopefully changing things for the better.”
Doherty also noted that she still plans to “search for the greater purpose in life” as her health battle continues.
“My greatest memory is yet to come,” she explained. “I pray. I wake up and go to bed thanking God, praying for the things that matter to me, without asking for too much. It connects me to a higher power and spirituality. My faith is my mantra.”
Doherty initially battled breast cancer between March 2015 and April 2017. In February 2020, she revealed that the disease had returned.
“It will be known in a few days or a week that I am in Phase IV,” she said during an appearance on Good morning America. “So my cancer came back. And that’s why I’m here. I don’t think I’ve processed it. In many ways it is a bitter pill to swallow.”
In October 2020, Doherty said she does not view her cancer diagnosis as a “death sentence.”
“I don’t want people to hear stage IV cancer and think the person is gray and falling over,” she told a friend Sarah Michelle Gellar in an interview for Entertainment tonight. “You are written off so quickly while you are still vital and healthy and happy. People immediately think it is a death sentence, but it is not.”
Earlier this year, Doherty revealed that her breast cancer had spread to her brain.
“On January 5, my CT scan showed Mets in my brain,” she wrote in a post Instagram message in June. “The first irradiation took place on January 12th. My fear is clear. I am extremely claustrophobic and had a lot going on in my life. I am fortunate to have great doctors like Dr. Amin Mirahdi and the amazing engineers at Cedar Sinai. But that fear… the anxiety… the timing of it all… this is what cancer can look like.”