As celebrities and followers proceed to honor Shannen Doherty, actress Shenae Grimes shared her personal touching story with the late actress.
“I didn’t know her effectively. I don’t even know if she remembered assembly me, however the impression that she had on me has lasted the 15 years that it’s been since my interplay together with her,” Grimes, 34, started in a Sunday, July 14, Instagram video.
Grimes recalled how Doherty, who died at age 53 on Saturday, July 13, made a handful of visitor appearances on the primary season of Beverly Hills, 90210 revival in 2008. “My character on the spinoff of the present positively represented her character [Brenda Walsh] on the unique 90210 as a result of I used to be a part of the brother-sister duo that moved from the small city to Beverly Hills,” Grimes, who performed Annie Wilson on 90210, defined. “Shannen was all the time my favourite, in all probability due to the brunette locks.”
Grimes mentioned she was “so nervous and excited” to behave alongside Doherty and that the collection’ showrunner let her meet Doherty in her trailer earlier than filming. “She simply gave me the warmest smile and the most important hug,” Grimes recalled. “And I had been by way of a lot already in such a brief time frame since reserving the present, beginning to movie the present and making ready for all of that, actually changing into, like, tremendous well-known for a second in a single day. … And when she hugged me, like, I simply felt like, ‘You’ve been right here. You recognize what that is on, like, a fair bigger scale than I probably may have skilled.’”
She continued: “It simply made me really feel like, ‘I’m OK. She bought out unscathed from this loopy, wild trip and he or she’s right here,’ and I simply felt actually seen and comforted and cared for in that second.”
On set, Grimes mentioned her admiration for Doherty solely grew after watching her “gracefully command a room” together with her “robust” presence. It was Doherty who Grimes says helped set up the “blueprint for how one can be a robust girl who takes no s–t and calls for what she deserves.”
She gushed: “It takes a extremely courageous girl to step outdoors of that and shatter that mildew and say, ‘Nope, I received’t do it.’ Shannen was a type of girls, and I f–king liked her for it. In my expertise, which was so restricted together with her, however what I noticed was somebody who was humorous, who was charming, so charismatic, so respectful, so skilled, so heat and wonderful.”
Grimes wrapped up the video by noting that she is “so heartbroken” over information that Doherty misplaced her battle with breast most cancers, however she’s additionally “so blown away and utterly unsurprised that she fought as f–king onerous as she did over these previous nonetheless a few years.”
She concluded: “What a privilege to have gotten to expertise that second together with her in time. What a privilege to have gotten to step into some model of her sneakers in a interval in my life. [I’m] actually simply so honored to have had that have, and it’s one thing that I’ll cherish without end. And simply an enormous, big thanks to you, Shannen, wherever you might be. I don’t know in the event you ever knew how a lot you impressed me, however I hope you do and I hope you’re resting in peace.”
Grimes additionally paid tribute to Doherty by way of her Instagram Story, captioning a pic of the 2 of them on 90210, “RIP 💔 to the icon, legend and WARRIOR, Shannen Doherty. The Brenda to my ‘Annie’ without end. And what an immense honor and privilege that’s to have the ability to say.”
Doherty’s publicist Leslie Sloane confirmed information of her loss of life in an announcement to Us Weekly on Sunday, sharing, “The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and buddy was surrounded by her family members in addition to her canine, Bowie. The household asks for his or her privateness at the moment to allow them to grieve in peace.”
Finest identified for her roles in Beverly Hills, 90210, Charmed and Heathers, Doherty was identified with stage IV breast most cancers in 2015. A February 2020 lawsuit towards State Farm revealed that she was “dying” of terminal most cancers, and he or she revealed via Instagram final 12 months that the most cancers had unfold to her mind.
Previous to her loss of life, Doherty had taped a number of episodes of a brand new iHeartPodcast Community Charmed rewatch podcast titled “The Home of Halliwell.” It was revealed on the podcast’s Monday, July 15, episode that the 5 episodes she recorded earlier than her passing might be launched in her reminiscence.