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Alyssa Milano, who played Phoebe on the hit WB series “Charmed,” participated in a panel collider-hosted to respond to claims that she was responsible for Shannen Doherty’s departure from the fantasy drama series in 2001.
Although he did not deny the claims, Milano expressed that he was “sad.”
“I don’t think it’s really that he’s sad for me or my life or how it affects or doesn’t affect my life. I am the saddest for the fans. “What saddens me most is that a show that has meant so much to so many people has been marred by a toxicity that, to this day, almost a quarter of a century later, continues to occur,” Milano said on the panel. “And it makes me sad that people can’t get over it. And it saddens me that we can’t just celebrate the success of a program that meant so much to all of us.”
Doherty was a member of the original cast of “Charmed” alongside Milano and Holly Marie Combs. Doherty’s character Prue was killed off after three seasons and replaced by Rose McGowan’s Paige.
Rumors about Milano’s role in Doherty’s firing began circulating in December when Doherty took to his podcast “Let’s Be Clear” to reveal that he was asked to leave the show due to an alleged ultimatum Milano gave producers. A dispute between the actors reportedly led Milano to tell “Charmed” producers that they had to fire one of them and, if it was her, she would threaten to sue them for a hostile work environment.
Combs, Doherty’s guest on the podcast, confirmed that Milano pressured producers to fire Doherty after three seasons, and revealed that “Charmed” producer Jonathan Levin once told him that Milano approached him with the ultimatum.
“He said, you know, ‘we’re basically in a position where it’s one or the other.’ “She told us (Alyssa) that it’s (Shannen) or me, and Alyssa has threatened to sue us for a hostile work environment,'” Combs said, adding that Milano ‘built a case for herself’ by using a mediator to document every time that she felt uncomfortable on set.
The origins of the feud date back to the show’s promotion and publicity before the series’ first season aired, with Doherty saying on a previous episode of his podcast that there was a “lack of female support” when the show appeared. the marketing revolved around her even though Milano and Combs were also protagonists.
“I have worked very hard in my life, in the last 25 years, to heal all my traumas,” Milano said. “And that’s not just, you know, the trauma that I experienced while filming, but all of my trauma, and I’ve worked very hard to heal parts of it because I understand that hurt people hurt other people. And my intention is to be a healed person who helps heal people. So, that’s how I feel.”
Milano hopes for a reconciliation in the future and says: “I wish we could all sit on one stage? Yes, because again, this was almost a quarter of a century ago. How is it possible to continue holding on to that?
“I think I have been very sincere and have taken responsibility and apologized for any role I played in the situation. And I’ve been very communicative about it. And then I don’t know how else to solve it. I don’t even know if I could try any harder than I already have to try to fix it. But yes, it is heartbreaking,” Milano concluded.
“Charmed” ran for eight seasons between 1998 and 2006. It was created by Constance M. Burge and produced by Aaron Spelling and his production company, Spelling Television. The series was rebooted in 2018 on the CW, starring Madeleine Mantock, Melonie Diaz and Sarah Jeffery.