Shannen Doherty‘s demise hit everybody onerous. Not solely was she beloved by followers and pals alike, she was additionally so rattling younger — simply 53 when she handed.
However one particular person it hit tougher than most? Jennie Garth!
The Beverly Hills, 90210 co-stars weren’t the very best of pals. In truth, for a few years they’d a reasonably bitter, if inert, feud going. Fortunately they largely patched issues up in the direction of the top, with Shannen saying earlier this yr that they’re “all good now.” (Although not ok to drop the ban from Jennie going to her funeral, apparently!)
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The problem wasn’t that Shannen was Jennie’s BFF. It was the actual fact she was her colleague. Her modern. Hell, they’re virtually precisely the identical age! So her passing scared the hell out of Jennie! And he or she wasn’t even the primary of their crew to die. Luke Perry died after a stroke at 52, simply 5 years again. Jennie is 52 now.
Talking candidly on her 9021OMG podcast with pal and fellow Beverly Hills alum Tori Spelling, Jennie admitted:
“It made me really feel very fearful, particularly simply with Luke dying and now Shannen. I simply really feel like, I don’t know, it may very well be any of us [that] might go at any second. That form of feeling … yeah, that’s scary.”
Appears like she was chilled to the bone! Not an unreasonable response — we’re positive most people even of their 30s have had somebody their age — a pal, a member of the family, somebody they went to high school with — go away. It at all times appears like somebody walked in your grave, proper?
Effectively, it seems Tori isn’t as spookable as her co-host. She expressed:
“I didn’t really feel worry in any respect when she handed. I simply felt unhappy. I felt unhappy for the second chapter she had, and I used to be so excited for that chapter for her and wished her so badly to have that.”
Makes good sense, in fact. However no new fears about her personal mortality??
Effectively, not likely. Tori defined she’s “at all times been a fearful particular person” basically — and about demise in particular, we guess? So extra demise didn’t change that. Wow.
However Shannen’s demise hit Jennie onerous, particularly how sudden it felt, similar to Luke’s — despite the fact that she ought to have been braced for it after the prolonged and troublesome most cancers battle. Shannen was first recognized with most cancers in 2015, then went into remission in 2017 earlier than it returned in 2020. Frankly, Jennie admits she “by no means thought she would succumb to most cancers” after combating it off so lengthy:
“It’s loopy that we may very well be shocked realizing that she was sick and realizing how onerous she was combating, but it surely nonetheless felt stunning.”
She added:
“It was simply stunning and makes you pissed, mad, unhappy, all the emotions as a result of after which [you’re] like, ‘What the f**ok?’ As a result of she’s the one particular person that you just didn’t see this taking place [to].”
It’s clear Jennie noticed Shannen as somebody far more durable than she ever was. She described how she really actually admired her late co-star:
“I discovered so much, you realize, about learn how to get up for myself, learn how to combat for issues that I believed in. I additionally noticed that she was saying what she wanted to say, and I assumed, ‘I need to be like that. I need to be an individual that makes use of my voice and says what I have to say.’ So she did encourage me.”
As for a way they’ll deal with Shannen’s passing with issues like 90210 podcasts and fan conventions? Jennie says she hopes everybody will preserve coming collectively for the followers and each other:
“I do know that it made us really feel higher to be collectively after Luke handed away. There was some consolation in that.”
Tori advised Jennie of their group of pals:
“I can’t think about this lifetime not attending to know all of you and never going by that have that, as we are saying, Jen, nobody can perceive. And I’m OK with that as a result of I wouldn’t have wished to share it with anybody else moreover all of you.”
Awww!
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