“My fear is obvious”: “Beverly Hills 90210” actress Shannen Doherty reveals that cancer has metastasized to her brain and shows shocking pictures of her radiation

Actress Shannen Doherty is facing an uphill battle after being diagnosed with brain metastases since last January. the remembered Brenda Walsh in the 90s series Beverly Hills 90210 has been battling the disease since 2015 when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, which was already advanced at the time.

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Doherty, who has also made a name for herself behind the scenes as a producer and director, recently shared some stark images on her Instagram that match the “adjustment process of the mask she wears during brain radiation,” an episode that terrified her because she’s claustrophobic.

“On January 5th my CT scan showed Mets in my brain. Yesterday’s video showed the process of adjusting the mask he wears during radiation to his brain. On January 12, the first round of radiation was performed. My fear is obvious,” said Shannen Doherty in a message accompanying the video.

There, she added that she was “extremely claustrophobic”, although at the same time she felt “lucky” to have “excellent” experts helping her manage the fear and anxiety of the moment.

The video clearly shows the actress crying as she undergoes this procedure to see the cancer that is attacking her. These difficult pictures of her reality come only a month after she announced her divorce from her husband, photographer Kurt Iswarienko, with whom she spent eleven years of marriage, reminds La Vanguardia.

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Since she was first diagnosed in 2015, the actress went through several processes and remained in remission from 2017 until 2020, when the disease returned to stage IV, according to the publication People en Español.

Then he decided to show his followers the treatment he received to raise awareness among people to take care of their health and thus get an early diagnosis.

Reactions from her followers didn’t take long to flood the comment box with expressions of support and solidarity, while praising Shannen Doherty’s courage to share this process.

“Thank you for sharing Shannon Doherty, you are so brave. Our thoughts and prayers are with you”; “I wish you a lot of strength and love”, are some of the messages collected by the pop media.

Shannen Doherty reacts against the Screen Actors Guild

Although the actress is still in a constant struggle for survival, she occasionally felt the lack of support from the Actors’ Union when it came to her health.

Because of this, in March of this year, he published a statement on his Instagram profile in which he expressed his anger even at the actress. Fran Drescher, remembered for her role in the series “Nanny”. Drescher is currently the president of the union.

“Fran Drescher, I’m interested in people like me who have been working since I was 10 years old and pay dues to the actors’ union like when we can’t work for health reasons, because our union is leaving us. I think we can do better for all our members and I think you are the person who will do it,” reads a part of the statement, which was reported today by Argentinian media Infobae.

Doherty was more forceful in calling out the union’s injustice to actors who pay dues all their lives, and then “they just fire us, because we don’t meet their current criteria.” (AND)