Setting the Record Straight

“She wants to tell her side of the story, past and present.”

SHANNEN DOHERTY isn’t holding back. During the Dec. 17 episode of her new podcast, Let’s Be Clear, the actress revealed the truth about her much-talked-about departure from the hit series Charmed after three seasons in 2001, confessing that despite initially claiming she’d left the show of her own volition, she’d actually been fired. (Shannen’s guest, fellow Charmed alum Holly Marie Combs, claimed their costar Alyssa Milano had pressured producers into giving Shannen the boot.) Reasoned Shannen, “One can’t keep telling the same story over and over and over again, when it’s not the truth.”

She’s more than ready to keep speaking her truth. The 52-year-old — who has been battling stage IV breast cancer since 2015 — is on a mission to set the record straight, and the former child star is opening up like never before about her decades-long Hollywood career, her widely publicized behind-the scenes feuds and the devastating end of her 11-year marriage to her third husband, photographer Kurt Iswarienko, in April. And she doesn’t care if she ruffles feathers along the way. “Shannen knows her truth and she’s not afraid to tell it,” a source tells Star. “At this point, she has nothing to lose. There have been so many lies said about her over the years that she wants to correct — and if that means settling some old scores in the process, so be it.”

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