Actress Shannen Doherty dies at the age of 53 after a long battle with cancer
Shannen Doherty, star of “Beverly Hills, 90210,” “Charmed” and “The Mallrats,” has died at the age of 53 after a long battle with cancer.
Brian Austin Green and Tori Spelling reflect on the 18-year hiatus in their friendship.
The former “Beverly Hills, 90210” co-stars chatted on Monday’s episode of the “Oldish” podcast and revealed that they hadn’t spoken to each other for nearly two decades after the show ended.
Spelling, who played Donna Martin in the teen drama series, said she burst into tears on set when filming on “90210” ended because she was afraid she and Green, who played David Silver, would lose touch.
“We were so close,” she said. “We grew up together and were such good friends. It was almost like a divorce or something. Like, ‘Oh my God. It’s time to move on, but I’m also losing the person that I’m with every day and that I have this connection with, and what’s going to happen now?'”
Spelling recalled Green assuring her that they would remain friends and “always be together” and “go on vacation together.” In reality, that was the “last time we spoke for 18 years,” she said.
The two actors told their side of the story and tried to figure out what happened. Green said that from his perspective, he tried to maintain the friendship, but Spelling didn’t seem interested. “I just never got that from you,” he told her, recalling a time when she “didn’t say hi to me once” at a DVD release party for “90210.”
“It was just like she was saying, ‘Oh my God. She just doesn’t want to be my friend anymore,'” Green said. “I really felt that. Because I felt like I had fulfilled my end of the bargain. I really tried to visit her. I called her. When that wasn’t reciprocated, at some point you just give up and think, ‘Okay, maybe there’s something going on and she needs time.'”
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For her part, Spelling said she “closed in” to Green because he was “not a fan” of her relationship with then-boyfriend Vincent Young. Green agreed that he did not think it was a “good relationship” for her. Spelling, on the other hand, was frustrated with Green’s own relationship with then-girlfriend Vanessa Marcil.
“It was frustrating to see the perspective of a friend who loves someone so much … and see what’s going on and how your friend is being treated and not feeling comfortable with it, but knowing that you can’t really say anything because the person is going through their own experiences,” Spelling said.
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Even after Spelling and Young split, the actress said she “never stopped trying to reach out and reconnect” with Green, but at some point she felt it had been “too long.” But the actors said they came out on the other side of that divide, and both returned to star in the 2019 series “BH90210.”
“We text each other,” Green noted. “We have the relationship we had back, and I’m glad we can have this conversation now. We won. It’s a victory lap that we get to do. We did it, and here we are again.”
Last month, Spelling and Green paid tribute to their former co-star Shannen Doherty, who died at the age of 53 after a battle with cancer. “I will miss you more than I can handle right now,” Green said on Instagram at the time, while Spelling said, “I don’t have words for it yet… but WE knew and that’s what matters.”
In an April episode of her podcast “misSPELLING,” Spelling said that Green was the “first love of my life.”
