Shannen Doherty: Controversial attitude and drama before passing away from cancer

Actress Shannen Doherty, who left a special impression on Vietnamese audiences through her role as witch Prue Halliwell in the series 'Magic', passed away on July 13 after 9 years of fighting cancer. breast.

The actress has a successful career, but along with that comes noisy marriage dramas and attitude scandals with her co-stars.

A turbulent childhood, acting when he was 10 years old to support the whole family

Shannen Doherty was born in 1971 into a middle-class family in Memphis, Tennessee, in the southern United States. Her mother is a beauty salon owner and her father is a real estate consultant. The actress has a brother who is 4 years older than her.

Doherty's family moved to Beverly Hills, Los Angeles when Shannen was 7 years old. With her beautiful and agile appearance, she received movie offers. However, Shannen only really accepted to act in the movie after a major family incident. Within a year, the girl faced the risk of losing both her parents. Shannen's mother had a brain aneurysm, and his father had a stroke due to a stroke. Hospital bills have pushed the family into financial ruin.

And so, at the age of 10, Shannen Doherty became an actress to support the whole family. She "pocketed" many supporting roles in the series Voyagers!, Father Murphy, Airwolf. However, it wasn't until she played Jenny Wilder in the hit movie Little House on the Prairie at the age of 11 that Shannen Doherty's name really shined. Director Michael Landon became the godfather and had a great influence on Shannen Doherty's later career.

Shannen Doherty is busy filming but has not neglected her studies. The actress studied middle and high school at the private French school Le Lycee Francais in Los Angeles (where Jodie Foster once studied). She is an outstanding student at school, graduating excellently with a perfect score of 4/4. However, she did not go to college to focus on acting. By 2011, the new actress was pursuing a bachelor's degree in distance learning majoring in Contemporary Liberal Arts at Poison Ivy League University.

A bright career but quickly ended due to a series of "concave" attitude scandals.

In the 1980s-1990s, Shannen Doherty was a bright star. Long-term roles in the TV series Little House on the Prairie and Our House brought Shannen Doherty a series of nominations at the Young Artist Award. The actress stepped onto the big screen with the movie Heathers in 1989. The movie as well as Shannen's performance were highly appreciated by experts. Heathers is considered to have dramatic colors and reflects the negative reality of American high schools, considered like Mean Girls or Gossip Girls of the 1980s.

By 1990, Shannen Dohert continued to shine with her role in the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210. However, by this time, the actress's bad sides gradually emerged. On set, she was often late and had an uncooperative attitude, quarreling with her co-stars. Many actors reflected and refused to act together, so the producers were forced to eliminate Shannen Doherty's character.

By 1998, the actress made a spectacular comeback as the powerful eldest sister Prue Halliwell in Magic.

The role has become iconic in her acting career, loved by audiences of the 8x, 9x and even early 2000s generations. The eldest of the three witch sisters. Prue's special power is to move objects at will, using her powers with her eyes and hands.

In part one, Prue worked at a history museum and quit because her boss (who was her fiancé) pressured her into refusing his marriage proposal. Afterwards, Prue worked at Buckland Auction House. She is known as the most talented and brightest antique appraiser.

But not long after being famous, Shannen Doherty "got used to her old ways". With a very solid launch pad, the actress would have been more successful if she hadn't upset the film crew. The actress had conflicts and always expressed her "confusing" attitude with co-star Alyssa Milano.

The incident was so serious that in season 3 of the show, Alyssa Milano had to speak up and ask the producers to fire Shannen Doherty, and the character Prue also died at the end of the season (partly because Shannen Doherty took a leave of absence). Shannen Doherty's name also went downhill from here. She acted in many movies but no longer made the same impression as before.

Breast cancer and marital drama engulf your life

Regarding her personal life, Shannen Doherty has been married 3 times. She went through two quick marriages with Ashley Hamilton (1993-1994) and Rick Salomon (2002-2003). It was not until the third husband Kurt Iswarienko and Shannen Doherty had a wedding and this marriage also "lived" for 11 years (2011-2022).

In addition to her famous career with brilliant roles, Shannen Doherty is also known for her courageous and positive journey of fighting a serious illness.

In 2015, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The actress has asked herself many times: "Why me? Why not me? Who else deserves to suffer this? None of us deserve it." After treatment, the Magic beauty's condition deteriorated in 2017. Kurt Iswarienko was the person who always accompanied Shannen Doherty, giving her more motivation to overcome the most difficult times.

Sadly, in the winter of 2019, Shannen received the bad news that the cancer had returned, spread more widely, and was in stage 4 metastasis. However, she still participated in the movies Fortress and BH90210 - the series following Beverly Hills, 90210.

By 2023, the actress revealed that her cancer had metastasized to her brain, and filed for divorce from her photographer husband Kurt Iswarienko. Magical Beauty was married three times but had no children. She confided that she did not want to be in a situation where her little child had to bury her mother.

The last time Shannen Doherty's name made noise was last June. The actress accused her ex-husband Kurt Iswarienko of not being financially transparent and only hoped she would die early so she wouldn't have to pay alimony.

From 2022, Kurt Iswarienko proposed a divorce settlement, but the actress refused because he "avoided financial issues in the marriage". The Magic star asked her ex-husband for monthly alimony of 15,343 USD (390 million VND), 9,100 USD (231 million VND) for lawyer fees and 11,800 USD (300 million VND) for other expenses.

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