On Tuesday, Shannen Doherty appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America show and revealed that her cancer has reoccurred and that she is in stage 4, meaning the cancer has metastasized or spread to different parts of her body.
In new court documents filed later in the day, the 48-year-old was more open about her stage 4 cancer diagnosis. The new documents’ opening line read, “Plaintiff Shannen Doherty is dying of stage 4 terminal cancer.”
She filed a lawsuit against State Farm, alleging that the insurer has been dropping back in paying out her $1.4 million claim over the “severe” fire and smoke damage caused to her Malibu home in Woolsey Fire in November 2018, according to Variety.
The Woolsey Fire killed three people and destroyed more than 1,600 structures. Apart from Doherty, Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Neil Young, Gerard Butler, and Daryl Hannah lost their homes in the fire.
Doherty said, “I communicated with my insurance company, I called, I got passed around from claims adjuster to claims adjuster, so I ended up suing State Farm. And the result has been one of the most horrific processes I have ever been through.”
In 2015, Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer. In 2017, she announced that cancer had gone into remission. She told Robach her cancer returned last year and she kept quiet about it because she was willing to keep working.
The “Beverly Hills 90210” actress said, “Like, you know, our life doesn’t end the minute we get that diagnosis. We still have some living to do.”
