BEVERLY Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty claims that her insurance company is playing dirty in their court battle over the insurance claim for her Malibu home.
The 48-year-old actress – who is battling stage 4 cancer – filed new legal docs claiming that State Farm is invading her privacy and making false claims about her smoking habits.
Shannen says in the documents obtained by TMZ on Friday, that State Farm got it totally wrong when it claimed that she was smoking cigarettes up until March 2019.
She says she kicked the habit in 2015, after her original breast cancer diagnosis.
The Charmed actress is in the middle of a bitter court battle with the insurance company over claims that she is demanding a $2.7 million rebuild of her California home after the 2018 Woolsey Fires.
Her recent stage 4 cancer diagnosis is central to her claim against the firm who she says are haggling over home repairs costs and it’s preventing her from living there.
Shannen says it’s utterly ridiculous State Farm is attempting to smear her image by raising her tobacco use in the lawsuit.
The star is also complaining that her insurer included her medical records and street address in other legal filings as she worked hard to shield the personal information from the public.
As a result she wants a judge to punish the insurance giant with crippling sanctions.
State Farm told The Sun, “The plaintiff’s attorneys’ latest motion once again distorts the facts. Rather than try this smoke damage case in the media, we will do so in a court of law.”
Court documents, seen by The Sun, claim that Doherty has tried to garner sympathy with her cancer diagnosis.
State Farm claimed: “In fact, the first sentence of plaintiff’s memorandum in support of her ex parte application for reconsideration reveals plaintiff’s plan at trial to garner sympathy by her contention that State Farm must rebuild her entire house because she has breast cancer and COPD.”
State Farm alleges that they have already paid out $1 million on remediation, professional cleaning and rent for a temporary house for a year, as the work is carried out.
But it insists that the home has not suffered fire damage or structural damage, and is therefore in no need of a rebuild.
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