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  • Shannen Doherty Admits 90210 Firing Was All HER Fault! – Perez Hilton

    Shannen Doherty Admits 90210 Firing Was All HER Fault! – Perez Hilton

    Shannen Doherty has been dropping truth bombs on her podcast. Which we obviously love.

    But telling hard truths sometimes means looking at your own mistakes with a really honest lens. And we’re glad to say she’s doing that, too! After she and Holly Marie Combs claimed co-star Alyssa Milano was fully to blame for Shannen’s ousting from Charmed, this time, she’s taking full ownership for her firing from Beverly Hills 90210!

    TV brother Jason Priestley stopped by the Let’s Be Clear podcast this time, and they eventually got to the touchy subject of Shannen’s firing from their hit TV show. And Shannen, now 52, admits it was on her. She began:

    “I was in a really horrible marriage and there were things that were transpiring in that marriage that made it very hard for me to consistently be on time for work. And I know that that became a very big problem for the rest of you, as it should be.”

    Shannen is, of course, talking about her marriage to Ashley Hamilton. The actor-musician has been pretty open about his drug problem from around that time — and the impact it had on his wife.

    Ashley Hamilton in 2003. / (c) WENN

    She realizes now in hindsight she should have been more open with everyone about what she was going through, why she maybe needed special consideration:

    “I don’t think anybody knew that my father was super sick and I don’t think anybody knew that my husband was a massive drug addict… it was all consuming for me. I didn’t even want to leave the house because I was scared that he would go and get drugs.”

    Her struggles meant, among other things, causing her co-stars to have to work longer days. So eventually she was written off the show, with her character going to school overseas. While Shannen takes accountability, she does make clear she wasn’t given an ultimatum, not an explicit one, before being let go:

    “It wasn’t anybody’s responsibility by mine but I sort of wish I would have been sat down and sort of looked at and said, ‘Listen, the end result is going to be this, you are going to get fired and none of us are willing to put up with it anymore. And I understand that you have an issue in your personal life, but that also can’t bleed into work and you need to get your s**t together!’”

    Yeah, at the time she had been in the industry a long time — but she was also only in her mid 20s and in some ways just didn’t know how to handle these really difficult subjects.

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    Jason actually told her he felt guilty about not being more compassionate at the time, but Shannen quickly stopped him and said her behavior was no one’s fault but her own:

    “Listen, I really take the blame for that. I don’t blame anyone else for what transpired and my ultimate firing. I do blame myself because I should have had my personal life more together, I should have left a relationship earlier, I shouldn’t have been going out. I got definitely affected by the attention and all of a sudden I could go into a night club and it didn’t matter how old I was, I found it all very alluring and seductive. And I fell into that trap then you add the personal issues.”

    It’s so brave of her to talk really candidly about all of this. Hear the whole conversation for yourself (below):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tklZnmXMrLc

    [Image via The Kelly Clarkson Show/Beverly Hills 90210/YouTube.]

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  • Holly Marie Combs Claims Alyssa Milano Purposely Got Shannen Doherty FIRED From Charmed! – Perez Hilton

    Holly Marie Combs Claims Alyssa Milano Purposely Got Shannen Doherty FIRED From Charmed! – Perez Hilton

    Well, there it is. So much for the Power of Three.

    The feuding behind the scenes of Charmed is the stuff of TV legend, but it’s quickly becoming a matter of record, thanks to Shannen Doherty‘s new podcast.

    For those who haven’t heard, Let’s Be Clear is not only a podcast, it’s serving as Shannen’s oral memoirs, and she’s chosen to get some of the dirtiest laundry out of the way early. She brought on co-star Holly Marie Combs, and the two have been dishing all the dirt on what went on when the cameras weren’t rolling. And on Monday’s episode, Holly finally let the biggest familiar out of the bag. The rumors were true: Alyssa Milano got Shannen fired!!!

    From the moment Shannen’s character Prue Halliwell was killed off at the end of Season 3 (well, really in between seasons), the rumors started to swirl it was because of the whispered feud with her TV sister.

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    Now, over two decades later, Holly has confirmed it! Moreover, she says it wasn’t that Shannen quit, she got pushed out by Alyssa! She recalled how show producer Jonathan Levin explained it to her:

    “‘We didn’t mean to — but we’ve been backed into this corner — we’re basically in this position where it’s one or the other. We were told it’s her or [Shannen] and Alyssa has threatened to sue us for a hostile workplace environment.’”

    Wha??

    Yes, per Holly, their co-star had “documented every time she felt uncomfortable on set” in an effort to build a case and force producers’ hands. But Holly says it was all BS as, feud or no, Shannen didn’t do anything wrong. She said, obviously still upset:

    “There are actually people who behave badly and get away with it. I don’t think people understand that never happened here.”

    Holly was so upset, she said she’d leave the show, too — but claims Levin told her she’d get sued if she tried to walk! Damn!

    This is a huge accusation against Alyssa, who has managed to seem like she was taking the high ground all these years. In 2013, she was asked on Watch What Happens Live whether Shannen got fired, and she demurred:

    “I don’t know if she got fired, we never really found out what happened. I can tell you that we were on the air with her for three years and there were definitely some rough days. Holly and Shannen were best friends for like 10 years before the show started so it was very much sort of like high school. I would hope that in our thirties it wouldn’t feel like that anymore.”

    Notice no mention of it being such a “hostile workplace” that she needed to document a whole list — or that she knew very well Shannen was fired because she’s the one who made it happen. So, we can’t know for sure if this is true, as it is their word against hers at this point. Oof.

    [Image via Spelling Television/Peacock/YouTube.]

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