Shannen Doherty Cries As She Reacts To Alyssa Milano’s Comments About ‘Charmed’ Firing: “What Somebody Else May Call Drama Is An Actual Trauma For Me”
After Alyssa Milano denied claims that she had Shannen Doherty fired from the hit fantasy drama series this weekend, Doherty opened up further about the “trauma” she experienced, per Entertainment Tonight.
For those who haven’t kept up with this spellbinding story, Holly Marie Combs appeared on Doherty’s Let’s Be Clear podcast last December, where she claimed that Milano had been responsible for Doherty’s seemingly sudden exit from the show.
Fast forward to this past weekend at MegaCon Orlando, where Milano told panel viewers on Friday (Feb. 2) that the allegations by her co-stars saddened her, particularly with respect for fans of the show.
I’m the most sad for the fans,” she shared. “I am the most sad that a show that has meant so much to so many people has been tarnished by a toxicity that is still to this day almost a quarter of a century later still happening.”
On Saturday (Feb. 4), Milano clarified that she “did not have the power to get anyone fired” in an Instagram post featuring the transcript of her panel comments, arguing that “any retelling of these stories from anyone is just revisionist history.”
Doherty, who appeared on a different MegaCon Orlando panel on Sunday (Feb. 4) alongside co-stars Combs and Rose McGowan, told the audience that she and Combs “were not mean on the podcast,” and that they actually had “edited out anything that [they] thought would cause more drama.”
“We simply told the truth, because the truth actually does matter,” she continued. “But we wanted to try to save you, the fans, from heartbreak as much as humanly possible.”
Doherty highlighted the importance of “the truth actually be[ing] told” in light of her current struggles with stage 4 breast cancer, and apologized to the audience for becoming emotional.
“At this point in my life, with my health diagnosis — sorry if I start crying — with fighting horrific disease every day of my life, it is also incredibly important to me that the truth actually be told, as opposed to the narrative that others put out there for me,” she explained.
Noting that she and Combs “are standing by [their] truths,” she proceeded to clap back at Milano’s response directly, claiming that “there is no revisionist history happening in the truth that [she] know[s they] told,” and rejecting any “brush flinging or shoe flinging,” “lateness to set,” and the claim that there was an on-set “mediator for months on end.”
“I recall the facts as if I were still living in them, and what I will say is what somebody else may call drama, is an actual trauma for me, that I have lived with for an extremely long time,” she said, noting that her “battle with cancer” prompted her to “address this trauma and be open and honest about it.”
Choked up, she continued, “So that I can actually heal from a livelihood that was taken away from me, a livelihood that was taken away from my family, because someone else wanted to be number one on the call sheet.”
McGowan, who began her role as Paige Matthews directly following Doherty’s exit, per Entertainment Weekly, reiterated to fans that they had “protected [them] for a long time.” She ultimately quoted comedian Katt Williams, telling the audience, “‘Winners do not let losers rewrite history.’”
