Shannen Doherty.Photo:LISA O’CONNOR/AFP via Getty
LISA O’CONNOR/AFP via Getty
Shannon Dohertysays she’s become a different person after her cancer diagnosis.
TheBeverly Hills, 90210star, 52, opened up onBrian Austin Green,Sharna BurgessandRandy Spelling’s podcastOldishabout how her cancer diagnosis has changed her mindset when it comes to life.
“I think that cancer has been one of the absolute best and one of the worst things to ever happen to me in my entire life,” Doherty shared. “It changed me as a human being.”
“It made me grow up in a totally different way,” she explained. “It made me look at life and relationships very differently. My values shifted. My priorities shifted. I feel much more clearer and much more focused.”
She added that she believed that she had a different “strength” now when it came to handling obstacles — as opposed to her more “quiet strength” before.
Since first beingdiagnosed with breast cancerin 2015, many things have changed in theCharmedactress’ life. Last year, shefiled for divorcefrom Kurt Iswarienko, her husband of 11 years, and has refocused her energy in recent years toadvocate for cancer researchand medical advances.
Shannen Doherty.Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty
Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty
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Despite all of these positive changes, Doherty, who revealed to PEOPLE in November thatthe cancer had spread to her bones, said she still has to deal with the constant fear of her body failing her.
“I woke up today and my back was hurting me, and I lost my mind for easily 15 to 20 minutes,” she recalled. “Because I thought this is what happens when the protocol stops working… the cancer starts spreading and you feel it and it starts eating at your bones and it hurts.”
“And I had a moment of being really, really, really scared,” she continued. “So in that sense it’s the worst.”
Doherty also shared that she has adopted a more positive outlook for her cancer diagnosis and plans to live as long as she possibly can.
“There’s no cure,” she said on the podcast. “But there are so many super cool things happening in the medical field in particular with cancer that I never look at it as terminal.”
She continued, “I look at it as something I’m just having to stay on a protocol for as long as possible until there is a cure or until there’s a new med that’s gonna give me another three years… and then another five years, whatever it is.”
source: people.com
