The late Shannen Doherty’s 2001 firing from “Charmed” stays one among TV’s most notorious departures, and as revealed in a current episode of the “Home of Halliwell podcast, it is one thing her former co-stars are nonetheless struggling to know.
Doherty, who performed eldest sister Prue Halliwell throughout the first three seasons, was fired from The WB’s hit witch sequence after Alyssa Milano, who portrayed youngest sister Phoebe, allegedly demanded that her co-star be eliminated from the present or else she’d stroll. Milano denies getting Doherty fired from “Charmed,” noting that selections like that had been above her pay grade.
That stated, Holly Marie Combs, who performed center sister Piper, is firmly on Doherty’s facet. Throughout a current episode of the present’s rewatch podcast, which Combs co-hosts with “Charmed” co-stars Brian Krause and Drew Fuller, she asserted that everybody concerned within the sequence is just too scared to debate the reality out of worry of the fandom preventing again. Nevertheless, she maintains that the choice to fireplace Doherty and kill off her character following the Season 3 finale was mistaken.
“There was simply so many various methods it might have been dealt with,” Combs stated. “And the actual fact of the matter is it was dealt with so s****ily. It was such an enormous insult to damage to let her direct [the season 3 finale] and exit on this excessive be aware. Like, it is simply so sick and twisted.”
Combs has backed up some particulars from Doherty’s story previously, claiming {that a} producer instructed her that Milano made the community select between the pair and threatened to sue, forcing them right into a sticky state of affairs. As beforehand talked about, although, Milano disputes these accusations, and regrets that she and her former co-stars have not been capable of transfer previous the state of affairs.
Alyssa Milano’s response to drama with Charmed co-stars
No matter what occurred to trigger the rift between Alyssa Milano and Shannen Doherty on “Charmed,” it is clear that the actors by no means made amends within the years that adopted. Whereas everybody moved on with their lives and careers to an extent, Milano has been open in regards to the long-term ramifications of the feud.
“I am probably the most unhappy for the followers,” Milano instructed a panel hosted by Collider at MegaCon in 2024. “I am probably the most unhappy {that a} present that has meant a lot to so many individuals has been tarnished by a toxicity that’s nonetheless to today, nearly 1 / 4 of a century later, nonetheless occurring. And I am unhappy that folks cannot transfer previous it. And I am unhappy that all of us cannot simply rejoice the success of a present that meant a lot to all of us.”
Doherty later responded to Milano’s MegaCon feedback in regards to the drama on “Charmed,” saying that she was nonetheless coping with trauma introduced on by the expertise, and that solely she spoke up about it years later to heal from it.
Rose McGowan, who joined the solid as Paige Halliwell after Doherty left the sequence, chimed in afterward to criticize Milano, saying that everybody had been defending her for years by conserving quiet. Doherty died in 2024 on the age 53, and Milano was among the many “Charmed” and “90210” solid members who paid tribute to her following the tragedy.
