BEVERLY Hills, 90210 actress Shannen Doherty has died at age 53 after a nine-year battle with cancer that saw the disease spread to her bones.
Doherty died after her battle.
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Doherty’s death comes after she opened up about her cancer diagnosis with People last November.
The actress revealed that after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, the disease spread to her bones.
“I’m not done with living,” Doherty heartbreaking told the magazine.
“I’m not done with loving. I’m not done with creating. I’m not done with hopefully changing things for the better.
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“I’m just not – I’m not done.”
After initially beating the disease in 2017 after undergoing chemotherapy.
However, two years later, Doherty announced that the cancer had returned.
In 2020, she revealed that she was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer.
In June 2023, she emotionally revealed that her cancer had spread to her brain, and she had to undergo a procedure to remove the tumor.
“When you ask yourself, ‘Why me? Why did I get cancer?’ and then, ‘Why did my cancer come back? Why am I stage 4?’ that leads you to look for the bigger purpose of life,” she told the magazine.
Despite her yearslong health battles with the disease, Doherty bravely welcomed death, proclaiming she wasn’t afraid of dying.
“I think I would be afraid of death if I wasn’t a good person, but I am,” she told People.
“I’m not afraid of dying, I just don’t want to die, like, ever.”
HOLLYWOOD BREAKTHROUGH
Doherty broke into the world of Hollywood as a child actor on the TV series Little House on the Prairie.
Although she only appeared in four episodes of the show’s final season, Doherty’s career continued progressing, appearing in the animated film The Secret of NIMH and an episode of the TV series Airwolf.
In 1985, she starred as Maggie Malene in the teen movie Girls Just Want to Have Fun alongside Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker.
Her breakout role came in 1990, when she was cast to play the role of Brenda Walsh in the series Beverly Hills, 90210.
She earned a nomination for Best Young Actress Starring in a TV series at the Youth in Film Awards.
Following her exit from the show, Doherty starred in several television movies, including Mallrats, Christmas Caper, and the series Charmed.
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