Shannen Doherty’s Mom Breaks Silence on Daughter’s Loss of life

In an announcement to PEOPLE on Monday, Rosa Doherty expressed her gratitude towards followers who’ve despatched their “love and help” within the wake of the unhappy information of Shannen’s passing. The Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed star handed away on Saturday at 53 after a years-long battle with most cancers.

“She is my lovely woman and my coronary heart,” Rosa mentioned. “Our household needs to thank everybody who has proven love and help for our Shannen all through her life. We’re really appreciative.”

On Sunday, Shannen’s rep, Leslie Sloane, introduced the information of her demise.

“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I affirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13, she misplaced her battle with most cancers after a few years of preventing the illness,” Sloane mentioned, per TMZ. “The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and good friend was surrounded by her family members in addition to her canine, Bowie. The household asks for his or her privateness right now to allow them to grieve in peace.”

Shannen was first recognized with breast most cancers in 2015. Whereas she was believed to be in remission in 2017, in 2019 she realized her most cancers had metastasized as Stage 4 in her mind and bones.

Late final month, Shannen shared on her podcast Let’s Be Clear that she began a new spherical of chemotherapy. Regardless of being instructed that her Stage 4 most cancers was incurable, she shared that she felt “hopeful” and was sustaining a optimistic outlook.

Throughout an interview with PEOPLE in November 2023, the actress — who had an in depth relationship together with her mom — recalled Rosa struggling a mind aneurysm when she was a baby.

“I come from a girl who was decided,” Shannen mentioned. “She impressed that upon me as a really younger little one like, ‘You do not hand over. You simply need to work laborious at it.'”

“I believe I used to be all the time a fighter,” she defined. “I used to be raised that solution to be very robust and that I may do something that I put my thoughts to.”

A number of months earlier, the Heathers actress acquired candid together with her followers as she opened up about having a mind tumor eliminated, admitting that she was “apprehensive” about how her doable demise would have an effect on her mother.

“January 16, 2023. Surgical procedure. I had a tumor in my head they wished to take away and likewise biopsy,” Shannen captioned the June 2023 Instagram put up. “I’m clearly attempting to be courageous however I’m petrified. The concern was overwhelming to me. Fearful of all doable unhealthy outcomes, apprehensive about leaving my mother and the way that might affect her. Apprehensive that I’d come out of surgical procedure not me anymore. That is what most cancers can seem like.”

In the meantime, throughout an episode of her podcast this previous April, Shannen expressed comparable considerations concerning leaving her mother behind if she misplaced her battle with most cancers.

“As a result of it is going to be so laborious on her, I would like different issues to be so much simpler,” she mentioned on the time, per PEOPLE. “I do not need her to have a bunch of stuff to cope with. I do not need her to have 4 storage models crammed with furnishings.”

In the identical episode, Shannen mentioned she wasn’t scared to die, however he did not “need” to die.

“I am not performed with dwelling. I’m not performed with loving. I’m not performed with creating. I am not performed with hopefully altering issues for the higher,” she shared. “I am simply not — I am not performed.”

Following the information of Shannen’s passing, celebrities, together with a number of of Shannen’s former Beverly, Hills 90210 and Charmed costars, took to social media to pay tribute.

See how Hollywood mourned Shannen’s demise, right here.