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Remembering Shannen Doherty: A Gen X Icon Who Fought Like Hell to Live
Shannen Doherty left an indelible mark, through 'Beverly Hills, 90210,' 'Heathers,' 'Charmed,' her many TV movies — and by being honest about cancer.
But despite how dire things may have appeared, Doherty was still pushing forward in her career: Just last week, she and her former “Charmed” castmates Holly Marie Combs, Brian Krause and Drew Fuller announced that she would be joining their “House of Halliwell” rewatch podcast of the show, and they’d reboot it with her. She came of age just as the paparazzi and gossip press, who 10 years later would go on to stalk Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, among others, were beginning to create ongoing narratives about young women as living trainwrecks. But once she got going, she opened up about how her father’s health — he had been sick with various heart-related illnesses since she was a kid — had affected her just as “Beverly Hills, 90210” was reaching its apex, both in terms of her “acting out,” as she put it, and with practical things, such as her persistent lateness.
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