Actress Shannen Doherty has died after battling cancer, Fox News Digital can confirm.
The "Beverly Hills: 90210" star was 53.
"It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress, Shannen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13th she lost her battle with cancer after many years of fighting the disease. The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones as well as her dog, Bowie," her publicist Leslie Sloane said in a statement.
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"The family asks for their privacy at this time so they can grieve in peace."
Doherty was originally diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. At the time, it had spread to her lymph nodes. By 2017, she was in remission, only for her cancer to return in 2020.
In November, Doherty shared that her cancer had metastasized and spread to her brain and bones.
The former "Charmed" star has been transparent with her struggles surrounding the disease, opting to share her treatments as well as her fears. "I'm not afraid of death," she told People magazine. "I know where I'm going. I know… the people that I'm gonna see. I think I would be afraid of death if I wasn't a good person. But I am."
Prior to her passing, Doherty spoke candidly of her wishes for a funeral.
"It's come up a couple of times, but it really came up when I was about to go in for brain surgery in January," she told her best friend Chris Cortazzo during an episode of her "Let's Be Clear" podcast. Doherty underwent surgery to have a tumor removed. "I didn't think that I was going to make it. I redid my will and I made sure everything was like super clear."
Post operation, Doherty continued to think about the funeral, sharing what she did and did not want at her own funeral.
"I was pleasantly surprised at my dad's [funeral] of who showed up. But it made me start thinking about who would show up to mine. And there's a lot of people that I think would show up that I don't want there," she admitted, without naming certain individuals. "I don't want them there. Because the reasons for showing up aren't necessarily the best reasons.
"They don't actually really like me enough to show up to my funeral. But they will, because it's the politically correct thing to do, and they don't want to look bad. And so, I kind of want to take that pressure off of them."
