“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 starring role in Beverly Hills 90210: Mystery of Death.
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 know, a lot of fear, so it wasn’t just getting fired for being late. It was all my bad press, you know, that got my attention,” Doherty told 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 are the ones who scheduled the phone call with Aaron and said, ‘This is awesome. We don’t have to deal with this anymore. It is an unhealthy pursuit for our present. It’s 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 said, ‘This is too much for us.’ He couldn’t, he wouldn’t do it at all. He is a producer. He was sensible. He knew that I, as Brenda, was a big draw for the show and I was getting yes, some bad press, but I was also on 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 subject of Doherty’s firing was brought up between her and other castmates on her personal podcast Let’s be clear with Shannen Doherty.
In an episode with Jason Priestley Since earlier this year, she has claimed that 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 being fired from the show in the 2015 Lifetime special Tori Spelling: Superstar Lie Detector. At the time, she claimed she suffered some sort of physical altercation between Shannen and Jennie Garth, before calling her father to vote Doherty out.
“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 getting fired from… ‘90210’ I bounced back really quickly,” Doherty said, before stating that the situation on set had changed and that she wasn’t willing to give in to 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 such a huge conflict between me and the head producer and then Aaron’s accomplice, Duke, after they fired me, it was almost, I felt a certain relief 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 openly discussed the WB series’ behind-the-scenes drama — before claiming Alyssa Milano was responsible for Doherty’s dismissal from the present.
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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