Shannen Doherty, on her cancer: "If I had to make a wish, it would be just to live"

At 50 years old and after 40 years of acting career, Shannen Doherty returns to put herself in front of a camera after a time when her projects have been very scarce due to breast cancer that she has suffered for more than five years.

The actress has starred in a television movie that also talks about cancer, and has also directed content for the same production company, Lifetime.

This is the first fiction project in which Doherty addresses the issue of cancer after suffering his.

She says that she has been "quite careful" when it comes to taking her experience to the acting world, but that the script convinced her.

Following the release of the film, Doherty has said that, in his day-to-day life, he tries not to focus too much on his illness.

"My husband says that you would never know that I have cancer," she tells of who her husband has been for a decade, photographer Kurt Iswarienko.

"I never complain.

I don't even talk about it.

At this point, it is part of life.

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Doherty explains that she feels she has "a greater responsibility" in her public life, which she has thus far separated from her acting life. Responsibility "about talking about cancer and perhaps educating people more, letting them know that those who are in grade four are very alive, very active," he said in a telematic talk with several journalists during the presentation of the project, where He states that he has not had to give advice to the rest of the actresses or to the director. “Those fabulous women did a great job with the whole prep process. We all showed ourselves, we were very honest. It was an incredible pleasure to be part of it, ”he says.

In the film, one of the protagonists, diagnosed with cancer, has a wish list that she wants to fulfill before she dies and that she is crossing out little by little.

But Doherty says he's not at that point.

“I think a wish list would be weird in my situation, because it would assume that I'm trying to take things away from myself before my time runs out.

I don't have a list because I'm going to be the longest-living person with cancer in the world, ”he said.

“If I had to make a wish, it would be just to live.

It's the only thing on my list for now. "

Shannen Doherty, who became popular in the early 1990s thanks to her role as Brenda on the series

and who had a second run of success in the late 1990s with

, she said six years ago that she suffered from breast cancer. Throughout this time he has publicly shown the effects of the disease: from how he has lost his hair due to aggressive treatments to the problems he has had with his health insurance. In August 2017, two years after diagnosis, he reported that the disease was in remission. But in February 2020 he made public that the tumor was once again showing its face in a very aggressive way. “It is a very bitter drink in every way. I'm petrified, very scared, "she said then. “I definitely have days where I say why to myself. And then it changes to, well, why not me? Who else? Who else besides me deserves this? None of us deserve it, ”he reflected.

In this second stage of the disease, Doherty has also been natural in his social networks, telling about his illness and how his body has changed. "I was watching movies tonight and I have realized that there are a few female characters with whom I can identify," he wrote last June on his Instagram profile, where he has almost two million followers. “You know, women without fillers, without botox, without having a

. Women who love their faces and all the experience that they show ”.

In a recent interview for the

publication

in which she spoke with Sarah Michelle Gellar, who is also an actress and a good friend of hers, she said that her intention is to change the vision of cancer. “I want that when people hear about cancer in grade four, not think of someone gray, in free fall, who cannot move, who has to be hospitalized and cannot work. They discard you very quickly, even if you are vital and healthy and happy and wanting to go out and work ”, he defended. “Everyone is terminal. I could live much longer than someone in perfect health. You never know".