Shannen Doherty: I still have ‘a lot of life’ in me amid Stage 4 cancer battle
Amid her battle with Stage 4 breast cancer, Shannen Doherty says she’s still “got a lot of life” in her.
In a new interview with Elle magazine, the “Beverly Hills, 90210,” star revealed that when she received the diagnosis, which she told the public about in February 2020, she paced, cried and evaluated her life.
“I was like, ‘OK, do I have good karma? Do I have bad karma? Why would I have bad karma?’ I started taking stock of my life and the things I’d done, and the things I hadn’t done. How I was with people,” Doherty, 49, told the magazine. “At the end of that, what I came out with was, I have good karma. It may not seem like it, but I’ve been a really good human being.”
Doherty was first diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2015. After a two-year battle, the actress announced her cancer was in remission. Even at the time, though, she said the next five years would be crucial, as cancer returns all the time.
When she announced her Stage 4 diagnosis earlier this year, the actress admitted she was “petrified.”
She told Elle that she plans to write letters or send video messages to her family for after her death, but hasn’t gotten around to it.
“There are things I need to say to my mom. I want my husband to know what he’s meant to me,” she said. “But whenever it comes time for me to do it, it feels so final. It feels like you’re signing off, and I’m not signing off.”
She added, “I feel like I’m a very, very healthy human being. It’s hard to wrap up your affairs when you feel like you’re going to live another 10 or 15 years.”
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