Shannen Doherty lives with stage IV cancer by getting rid of material possessions | People

Shannen Doherty used her Let’s Be Clear podcast to talk about how the disease changed his priorities. “For me, cancer made me take stock of my life and change my priorities, and my priority right now is my mother.”

That’s the main reason Doherty, 52, started getting rid of her assets: firstly, because she doesn’t want her mother to have to deal with “the junk” if she dies before her and, secondly, because the money she He is reuniting with alienation and serves him to do things like travel with his mother and create memories. “I don’t need this [dos bens]it doesn’t bring me great joy, but what brings me great joy is taking my mother to the places she always wanted to go and making those memories with her,” said Doherty.

Shannen Doherty is an avowed collector of furniture pieces, but now, she assesses that “none of us really needs all the things we have”, noting that “we can all do a little reduction and not be hoarders, like I was transform me with all my furniture.”

Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. Five years later, in February 2020, she announced on the program Good Morning America, that the breast cancer was back and in stage IV. Doherty started with hormone therapy, but ended up undergoing a mastectomy, followed by intense chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

In October 2017, on Instagram, the actress who played Heather Duke, in Heathers, released a photograph with locks of hair in her hand and crying. “Cancer has stages. Shock, denial, acceptance, anger, resentment, rebellion, fear, appreciation, beauty. Cancer is with us forever. Those who have lived it know that, even if we have kicked it in the ass, it continues to have an impact on our lives, in positive and negative ways. You can still hold on to life and live, live, live, live.”

Last year, he reported that metastases had been identified in the brain. “On January 5th, my CT scan revealed metastases in my brain. On January 12th, my first radiotherapy session took place. Obviously I’m terrified,” she wrote.

In Beverly Hills 90210, Shannen Doherty was Brenda Walsh, the twin sister of one of the neighborhood’s heartthrobs, Brandon (Jason Priestley), both co-protagonists in the series that portrayed the rich young people of that Californian neighborhood next to Hollywood. The youth series was innovative because, in 1990, it brought to television topics considered taboo among teenagers — drugs, suicide, sex and teenage pregnancy.

Beautiful, but with an impulsive disposition, romantic and always at odds with her brother, Brenda ended up being loved by the public. But only the character, as American glossy magazines began to publish stories of behind-the-scenes troubles surrounding Shannen, whose stardom seemed to have gone to her head.

The series, which in Portugal was initially called Fever in Beverly Hillslasted ten years, but Shannen ended up leaving in 1994. Before this series, the actress, originally from Memphis, Tennessee, had already appeared in a dozen films — most of them produced especially for television — and several television series, and after starting filming Beverly Hills 90210 was part of three dozen more films, some series such as Charmedwhich in Portugal was broadcast by AXN under the name Witches and even one reality show focused on his own life, in 2006 (Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty).