On the newest episode of her podcast Let’s Be Clear, Shannen Doherty sat down with former Charmed costar Holly Marie Combs and revealed that she didn’t depart her present underneath her personal volition, however quite claims that she was fired after Alyssa Milano threatened manufacturing with a lawsuit if the actor wasn’t kicked off the sequence.
“The narrative that I ‘stop’ was assigned to me by different individuals,” Doherty mentioned. “I didn’t assign it to myself. I feel I’m at that time in my life the place I don’t wish to maintain mendacity about it, and I don’t wish to maintain mendacity about one thing that meant absolutely the world to me, one thing that I cherished doing. I cherished going to that job. I cherished the those who I labored with.”
Doherty later famous that her representatives inspired the narrative that she determined to go away the present as an alternative of being pressured to go away. “I keep in mind them taking a look at me on the time and mentioned, ‘No, no, no, your profession gained’t survive one other firing [after the Beverly Hills, 90210 exit], so we’re simply going to say that you just selected to go away.”
Throughout their dialog, Combs detailed what she recalled from Doherty’s exit, sharing that in a gathering with producer Jonathan Levin, she says he confirmed that Milano had issued an ultimatum. “[He said], ‘We had been instructed that it’s her or me. Alyssa has threatened to sue us for a hostile office setting,” defined Combs. “As a result of she (Milano) went to the therapist or the mediator or the company mediator, regardless of the heck his title is, she constructed a case for herself the place she was documenting each time she felt uncomfortable on set and for no matter cause, whereas you and I refused to talk to him. In order that’s the place the deck was stacked.”
Holly Marie Combs, Shannen Doherty and Alyssa Milano from Charmed season two.
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In accordance with Combs, Milano’s threats of taking authorized motion “wouldn’t fucking fly” by in the present day’s requirements. “There have been no on-set brawls, there weren’t even harsh phrases exchanged. It was all behind the scenes,” she mentioned. “It was nothing that any of our co-stars or anybody [on set] observed.”
Doherty added, “I don’t ever keep in mind being imply to [Milano] on set. I keep in mind an episode that I directed the place she did one thing on the Christmas break, they usually requested me to work round some issues along with her and I couldn’t have been extra form and understanding.”
Throughout the earlier episode of her two-part chat with Combs, Doherty shed gentle into what led into her rift with Milano. She famous that she was the primary to be forged on the present, because it was bought to the WB primarily based on her star energy. The actor was additionally supplied to seem on the quilt of Rolling Stone alone on the heels of the sequence’ success.
“The competitiveness was kicking in. And I’m not saying with you, I’m saying with Alyssa and myself, that there was an absence of feminine help,” she mentioned.
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Milano’s rep for remark.
