Shannen Doherty‘s dying hit everybody laborious. Not solely was she beloved by followers and pals alike, she was additionally so rattling younger — simply 53 when she handed.
But one particular person it hit more durable than most? Jennie Garth!
The Beverly Hills, 90210 co-stars weren’t the perfect of pals. In truth, for a few years that they had a quite bitter, if inert, feud going. Thankfully they principally patched issues up in the direction of the tip, with Shannen saying earlier this yr that they’re “all good now.” (Though not ok to drop the ban from Jennie going to her funeral, apparently!)
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The concern wasn’t that Shannen was Jennie’s BFF. It was the very fact she was her colleague. Her up to date. Hell, they’re virtually precisely the identical age! So her passing scared the hell out of Jennie! And 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.
Speaking candidly on her 9021OMG podcast with pal and fellow Beverly Hills alum Tori Spelling, Jennie admitted:
“It made me feel very fearful, especially just with Luke dying and now Shannen. I just feel like, I don’t know, it could be any of us [that] could go at any moment. That kind of feeling … yeah, that’s scary.”
Sounds like she was chilled to the bone! Not an unreasonable response — we’re certain most folk 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?
Well, it seems Tori isn’t as spookable as her co-host. She expressed:
“I didn’t feel fear at all when she passed. I just felt sad. I felt sad for the second chapter she had, and I was so excited for that chapter for her and wanted her so badly to have that.”
Makes good sense, in fact. But no new fears about her personal mortality??
Well, probably not. Tori defined she’s “always been a fearful person” typically — and about dying in particular, we guess? So extra dying didn’t change that. Wow.
But Shannen’s dying hit Jennie laborious, particularly how sudden it felt, identical to Luke’s — despite the fact that she ought to have been braced for it after the prolonged and tough 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 “never thought she would succumb to cancer” after combating it off so lengthy:
“It’s crazy that we could be shocked knowing that she was sick and knowing how hard she was fighting, but it still felt shocking.”
She added:
“It was just shocking and makes you pissed, mad, sad, all the feelings because and then [you’re] like, ‘What the f**k?’ Because she’s the one person that you didn’t see this happening [to].”
It’s clear Jennie noticed Shannen as somebody far more durable than she ever was. She described how she truly actually admired her late co-star:
“I learned a lot, you know, about how to stand up for myself, how to fight for things that I believed in. I also saw that she was saying what she needed to say, and I thought, ‘I want to be like that. I want to be a person that uses my voice and says what I need to say.’ So she did inspire 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 hold coming collectively for the followers and each other:
“I know that it made us feel better to be together after Luke passed away. There was some comfort in that.”
Tori advised Jennie of their group of pals:
“I can’t imagine this lifetime not getting to know all of you and not going through that experience that, as we say, Jen, no one can understand. And I’m OK with that because I wouldn’t have wanted to share it with anyone else besides all of you.”
Awww!
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