“I kind of knew it wasn’t (producer Aaron Spelling’s) decision at all,” Doherty told Kelly Ripa.
Shannen Doherty is opening up about being fired from her main role in Beverly Hills 90210.
While speaking with Kelly Ripa for SiriusXM Let’s talk about Digicam with Kelly Ripa, the 53-year-old called out her former co-stars for allegedly throwing her under the bus – resulting in the departure of her character Brenda Walsh – during a time when she was struggling to break through.
“I felt, you already know, really scared, so it wasn’t simply getting fired for being late. It was all my sick press, you already know, that got to me,” Doherty informed Ripa.
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“The solid collectively determined that it was not a very good search for 90210 more, then the solid of 90210 “They’re the ones who scheduled the phone call with Aaron and said, ‘This is too much. We don’t have to deal with this anymore. This is an unhealthy pursuit for our present. This is an unhealthy pursuit for us. She was three hours late, blah, blah, blah,’” she said.
“I didn’t know much about it until later, Tori (Spelling) was just on my podcast. She told me a lot of this. Brian Austin Green told me a lot of that, but I kind of knew it wasn’t Aaron’s (producer Aaron Spelling) decision at all,” Doherty continued to tell Ripa.
“It wasn’t that he looked into the future and mentioned, ‘That’s just an excessive amount for us.’ He couldn’t, he never would. He is a producer. He was sensible. He understood that I, as Brenda, was a big draw for the show and I was getting, for sure, some bad press, but I was also in the quilt Rolling Stone and so on, you already know, each cover is different, so it was fundamental. This was fueling publicity and increasing scores.”
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The topic of Doherty’s dismissal was brought up between her and other colleagues on her personal podcast Let’s be clear with Shannen Doherty.
In an episode with Jason Priestley Earlier this year, she claimed her marriage to Ashley Hamilton was falling apart at the time, claiming he was addicted to drugs – about which he is open – this hindered their means of being qualified and punctual at work.
Ultimately, she was written out of the present. When fans tuned into season 5 in 1994, they discovered that Doherty’s character, Brenda, was heading to England to attend acting school.
Tori opened up about her role in Doherty’s firing from the present in the 2015 Lifetime special Tori Spelling: Superstar Lie Detector. At the time, she claimed she got into some sort of physical altercation between Shannen and Jennie Garth, before calling her father to eliminate Doherty.
“I felt like I was part of something, a movement, that was costing someone their livelihood,” she said through tears. “Was she a horrible person? No. She was one of the best friends I ever had.
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Although Aaron Spelling fired Doherty on the coming-of-age television series, she would later work with him again on his television show. Charmed.
“I mean, when I got the script (Charmed), as soon as someone told me it was Aaron Spelling, I threw him in the back of my car. It was like, ‘I’m not going to work with that guy anymore,'” she told Ripa, “but I did it because it was really, really, really good and I got to make casting choices, all of that.”
“He needed you. He knew he needed you,” Ripa added, before Doherty admitted that he recovered from the shooting quickly.
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“Yeah, so being fired from that… ‘90210’ I bounced back from very quickly,” Doherty said, before stating that the landscape on set had changed and she wasn’t interested in deferring to the male producers.
“The scene was very hostile and poisonous and I just wasn’t the woman to work with among the male producers. I wasn’t, I couldn’t say yes and I batted my eyelashes and made a childish voice and probably didn’t have an opinion,” she continued.
“I was incapable, so when it became a big conflict between me and the head producer and then Aaron’s accomplice, Duke, when they fired me, it was almost, I felt some reduction to be honest,” she said, adding that she had a more positive experience with Charmed – despite the rivalry with his co-stars.
“I felt like I was free and that felt good. Charmed, I would be there until the bitter end. It was by far one of my favorite work experiences. I loved my character. I loved, you already know, the writers. My team was my heart. I loved everything about that show,” said Doherty.
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The rumor of a split in Charmed set resurfaced on Doherty’s new podcast, Let’s be clear, in December, when Holly Marie Combs appeared as a guest and candidly discussed the behind-the-scenes drama of the WB series – before claiming Alyssa Milano was responsible for Doherty’s dismissal from the show.
Milano starred as Phoebe Halliwell in all eight seasons of the supernatural sequel, which ran from 1996 to 2008. Combs and Doherty played her sisters Piper and Prue, respectively. At the end of season 3, Doherty’s character was abruptly killed off and replaced by Rose McGowan Paige in season 4.
Milano denied having “the ability” to get someone fired.
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