Shannen Doherty is unsure about stepping back into the dating pool as she continues to battle cancer.
“Listen, I think it’s hard for someone like me, in my personal opinion, because it’s hard to date someone when you know they might have an expiration date,” Doherty, 53, shared Kelly Ripa on her “Let’s talk off camera” podcast during the episode of Wednesday, June 26. “I don’t think men deal with death and illness – I don’t want to generalize most men and say all men – but they don’t deal with it as well as women do.”
Doherty, who revealed she was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in 2020, confessed she thinks she’s a “really hard sell” as a romantic partner. Ripa, for her part, strongly disagreed with the actress’ sentiments. (In addition to battling cancer, Doherty is also in the middle of a divorce from her husband Kurt Iswarienkofrom whom she divorced in April 2023 after 11 years of marriage.)
The Charmed alum shared that while she is open to dating, she is also selective when it comes to her partners. Doherty admitted that she recently started dating someone, but “saw a red flag within 30 minutes” and decided not to pursue the connection any further. Ripa, 53, admitted she had someone in mind to set Doherty up with and teased that he was a catch, but he was on the older side.
For Shannen Doherty, it is important to be “as honest as possible” about her battle with cancer. The actress first battled breast cancer between March 2015 and April 2017, and in February 2020 she revealed that the disease had returned. ‘Within a few days or a week I will be on stage […]
“He’s a New Yorker, but he’s rich — that’s what you need!” Ripa teased. “You need someone wealthy, financially stable, who is not threatened by your fame, not intimidated by your fame. He’s older, he’s established. He presents himself very normally and I have never seen a dark side of this man.”
Ripa added that the mystery lover also had enough “cheese” to cover any elective surgeries she might need. Doherty laughed at her friend’s sentiment and joked that she was “sold.” She said that when looking for a partner, she is looking for ‘companionship’ more than ‘anything else’.
Doherty also added that she struggles to date new people because she is “self-conscious” about her body after her various health procedures.
‘I have so many scars from an operation that it’s like: how do you explain that: ‘No, that’s not from childbirth, that’s from a reconstruction operation.’ As a woman, you start to feel very insecure about yourself,” she explained. “I’ve never been sure of myself. I probably got completely into myself in my mid-thirties.”
Throughout her decades in the industry, Shannen Doherty has been through several marriages and relationships. The actress rose to fame as Brenda Walsh in Beverly Hills, 90210, which premiered in 1990. During her four-year run on the drama, Doherty was engaged three times: to Chris Foufas in 1991 and to both Dean Factor and Ashley Hamilton. […]
She confessed that while she had felt good about herself since she got into shape, that feeling disappeared in her 40s because “it all fell apart again.”
Doherty’s health problems began in 2015 when she received her first cancer diagnosis. Although she initially went into remission after treatment, the cancer returned in 2017. In November 2023, Doherty said the cancer had spread to her bones. Earlier this week, Doherty revealed she was preparing for another round of chemotherapy.
“It’s very difficult. The idea of having to go through all that again has devastated me,” she said in the Monday, June 24 episode of her podcast “Let’s Be Clear.” “If you have to go to the hospital and you have to go into hiding [and] When you put a port inside you, it becomes very real in an incredibly different way.”
