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By Eve Buckland and Sharon Mai for Dailymail.Com
16:34 February 6, 2024, updated 17:34 February 6, 2024
Emotional Shannen Doherty has doubled down on her claims that Alyssa Milano got her fired from Charmed in 2001, after the actress denied the allegations.
Appearing at Sunday’s MegaCon audience in Orlando with Charmed co-stars Holly Marie Combs and Rose McGowan, the star, 52, who is battling stage four cancer, cried as she read a statement in a video obtained by TMZ.
She said: ‘Holly and I weren’t bad on the podcast – my podcast, ‘Let’s Be Clear’. In fact, we went in and removed anything that we thought would cause more drama.
‘We just told the truth because the truth really matters. But we wanted to try to save you, the fans, from heartbreak as much as humanly possible.
“At this point in my life with my health diagnosis (sorry if I start crying) and fighting horrible illnesses every day of my life, it is also incredibly important to me that the truth be told instead of the narrative that others put it there for me.
“We told it together, we told our truths and we stand by them,” Doherty added of the claims she and Combs made on their podcast. “There is no revisionist history happening in the truth that I know we tell. …There are no delays to fix, there is no mediator for months. I remember the events as if I were still living in them.’
Combs also took to Instagram on Monday with a lengthy post saying she was “disappointed” by Milano’s denials.
She wrote, “I feel the need to defend myself after the many continuous attacks that have occurred since Alyssa took the stage (at MegaCon) and essentially called Shannen and me liars.”
‘Suffice to say I’m a little surprised and a little disappointed, especially at the things he posted the next day while simultaneously texting me opposite words. Unfortunately, that’s not so surprising anymore.
This comes after Milano broke his silence over reports that he got Doherty fired from Charmed in 2001.
The 51-year-old actress addressed the drama while speaking to her fans during a panel held earlier this week in Orlando, Florida, after Holly Marie Combs, 50, confirmed the rumor late last year.
Milano, who is currently embroiled in another controversy after she created a GoFundMe for her son’s baseball team and asked her fans for donations, notably neither confirmed nor denied the claims, according to a report from Deadline.
She later shared a transcript of the panel and wrote a lengthy caption, clarifying that she didn’t get her co-star kicked off the show.
Previously, Doherty, 52, accused Milano of “a strange split” on the set of the fantasy drama series.
Combs later confirmed the long-standing rumor that Milano was responsible for Doherty’s departure from the show.
Weeks after the clip went viral, Milano spoke out about the issue and said she was “sad” about it, although she remained vague about the validity of the claims.
“I knew this was going to come up one way or another, and I want to be very thoughtful about how I respond to all of this, and I’ll just say that I’m sad,” she said at MegaCon Orlando 2024.
“I don’t think he’s really sad about me or my life or how it affects or doesn’t affect my life,” she said.
He said he was “very sad” that the “toxicity” of his program has continued even decades later.
“I’m the saddest one for the fans,” she continued. “What saddens me most is that a show that has meant so much to so many people has been marred by a toxicity that still occurs today, almost a quarter of a century later.”
“It makes me sad that people can’t get over it,” he added. “It saddens me that we can’t just celebrate the success of a show that meant so much to all of us.”
She then talked about overcoming her trauma, adding that she now understands that “hurt people hurt people” and that she would rather be a healing person.
“I’ve worked very hard in my life for the last 25 years to heal all my traumas, and that’s not just all the trauma I experienced while shooting, but all my trauma.”
He added: “I have worked very hard to heal the parts because I understand that hurt people hurt people and my intention is to be a healed person who helps heal people.”
Her statement comes shortly after her former co-stars spoke out about drama on the set of Charmed at Doherty. Let’s be clear podcast.
Combs revealed that Milano had given an ultimatum, which was the reason for Doherty’s departure from the show after three seasons.
She recalled a producer telling her, “They told us (Alyssa) it was her or (Shannen) and Alyssa has threatened to sue us for a hostile work environment.”
Milano ultimately denied the claims on her Instagram, saying that her former co-stars are participating in “revisionist history.”
He also insisted: “I had no power to get anyone fired.”
“I don’t know of another show that has had the success that Charmed had and where the cast still speaks ill of the experience a quarter of a century later,” he wrote.
“This was 15 movies and 13 TV shows ago for me,” he continued. ‘This was 11 years before my 15-year marriage and 13 years before I had my first child. “This was so long ago that any retelling of these stories by anyone is simply revisionist history.”
He then noted that the evidence of what happened was “documented.”
But I will add with absolute certainty that everything was documented. There was a professional mediator,” he explained before adding that he had been told that “Holly and Shannen would not participate in any mediation.”
He said there was also a “producer/nanny on set,” who was “brought in to investigate all claims.”
“This mediator then recommended, after collecting testimonies from the cast AND crew, what changes should be made if the show was to continue,” he added.
“The studio, Aaron Spelling and the network made the decision to protect the international success that was Charmed,” he concluded. ‘I didn’t have the power to get anyone fired. “Once Shannen left, we had five more successful seasons and I will be forever grateful.”
