Rose McGowan has nothing however love for her late good friend, Shannen Doherty.
The “Jawbreaker” star guest-hosted an episode of Doherty’s podcast, “Let’s Be Clear,” final week.
Though the “Beverly Hills: 90210” star died final month from stage 4 most cancers, her podcast staff determined to maintain the present getting into Doherty’s reminiscence. Since Dohery’s passing, the present has been guest-hosted by those that had been closest to her, together with Doherty’s mother, Rosa, and her good friend, mannequin Anne Marie Kortright.
Final week, McGowan hosted an episode and spoke about her and Doherty’s unlikely friendship.
McGowan was employed to exchange Doherty on “Charmed,” after Doherty was fired from the present after its third season in 2001. McGowan stated on final week’s episode that she discovered it “weird” that after she changed Doherty, the present’s manufacturing and the media anticipated her to speak negatively about Doherty publicly.
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“From the get-go, every question was like, ‘Do you think Shannen Doherty hates you?’ ‘Do you think she’s jealous of you?’” McGowan recalled, about 18 minutes into the episode.
“I refused to take the bait,” she went on. “They wanted me to start a war with her, and I was like, absolutely not. And to her credit, she absolutely did not do that either.”
McGowan stated that Doherty’s choice to not partake within the pettiness is emblematic of her “world-class character.”
Elsewhere within the episode, McGowan additionally spoke about the best way it felt to work on “Charmed,” saying folks anticipated her to fail.
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“I was told over and over: ‘No show survives a major cast change,’” McGowan recalled quarter-hour into the episode. “You only have like 200-something jobs on the line, and far more behind the scenes, of people you can’t see in administration — but no worries, if everybody loses their jobs because you joining is going to tank the show.”
McGowan stated that being relentlessly advised that she would seemingly destroy “Charmed,” made her decided to succeed. McGowan remained on the previous WB collection till it wrapped in 2006, 4 seasons later.
McGowan additionally didn’t draw back from talking about how after Doherty was fired from “Charmed,” there have been rumors that she was a tough individual.
“It’s extremely hard to get out from under the dominant narrative,” McGowan stated 26 minutes into the episode. “And I am so proud that our girl did that.”
McGowan credited Doherty’s podcast, saying it gave Doherty the chance to share her aspect of the numerous media narratives about her and let her present her extra weak aspect by sharing her struggles with most cancers along with her followers.
“She did that in the end, on her own terms,” McGowan stated of Doherty’s work on her podcast. “And by doing that, she helped so many people. … The bravery it took her to share her health journey, … the bravery it took for her to be real and raw, … [it] didn’t take that much, because that is who she is.”
