Actress Shannen Doherty, most widely known for her role as Brenda on the hit Aaron Spelling television series, “Beverly Hills, 90210,” released an emotional video on Instagram revealing that her cancer has now spread to her brain.
Fox News is reporting that Doherty has posted a number of videos to her social media that reveal her undergoing a CT scan and being given the devastating news that her cancer had spread. Doctors treating the actress located metastases, which were referred to as mets, on her brain back on Jan. 5. Doherty then began chemotherapy treatment on Jan. 12.
“My fear is obvious. I am extremely claustrophobic and there was a lot going on in my life,” Doherty stated in the caption for the post. “I am fortunate as I have great doctors like Dr Amin Mirahdi and the amazing techs at cedar sinai. But that fear…. The turmoil….. the timing of it all…. This is what cancer can look like.”
Several months ago, in March, Doherty looked as if she were not doing too badly given the circumstances. The actress participated in a panel for a event called 90s Con for her other hit series, “Charmed,” and when the moderator for the discussion asked her how she was feeling she replied, “I’m feeling great, thank you!…This crowd is amazing,” a report from People stated.
Doherty was originally diagnosed with breast cancer back in 2015. She then endured a grueling eight rounds of chemo and radiation treatments to go along with a single mastectomy before going into remission in 2017.
Then, just a year later, Doherty revealed that tumor markers were “elevated.”
In a post on Instagram she said, “Test and results. One Tumor marker test came back good. Other… elevated. Just means I get monitored and another test.”
“But even after that call, I’m staying positive and taking stock of my life. It certainly helps put things in perspective and reminds you of what you learned thru the cancer journey. And I sometimes, need a refresher. (sic,” she added.
In 2020, The “90210” actress revealed she was once again suffering from cancer, noting it was stage four this time around, going beyond the initial location where it was found.
“I definitely have days where I say, ‘Why me?’ And then I go, ‘Well, why not me? Who else? Who else besides me deserves this?’ None of us do,” Doherty remarked during an interview on “Good Morning America” at the time. “I don’t think I’ve processed it. It’s a bitter pill to swallow in a lot of ways.”
However, despite having advanced cancer, Doherty kept working, appearing in “List of a Lifetime,” “Dying to Belong,” “Fortress,” and “Hot Seat.”
“I want people to not hear stage 4 cancer and think of the person that is gray and falling over and they can’t move and they’re going into hospice and they can’t work,” she had stated in a previous interview with “Entertainment Tonight.” “You get written off so quickly, even though you’re vital and healthy and happy and wanting to go out there and work.”
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