Shannen Doherty discovered her preventing spirit from her mom, Rosa.
The Beverly Hills 90210 star — who died at age 53 on July 13 after years of dwelling with most cancers — opened as much as PEOPLE in November 2023 about how her mother, who was identified with a mind aneurysm when Doherty was 8, taught her to be tenacious.
“I come from a lady who was decided,” Doherty stated on the time. “She impressed that upon me as a really younger little one like, ‘You do not hand over. You simply need to work arduous at it.’ ”
“I feel I used to be at all times a fighter,” Doherty added. “I used to be raised that method to be very robust and that I may do something that I put my thoughts to.”
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As she confronted ups and downs in her well being, Doherty leaned on her family members for help, together with Rosa.
“I do not assume that there is a choice that I make that I do not take [my mom] into consideration. I really like her, and I’m so extremely grateful to her for being an incredible mom,” she advised PEOPLE. “I take my brother into consideration and his youngsters, my canine, my animals.”
Doherty has shared a number of photographs together with her mom on social media.
In December 2023, she celebrated Rosa’s 76th birthday, writing, “Comfortable birthday to the very best mother on the planet. I really like you to the moon and again instances infinity. @themamarosa.”
She additionally posted a photo of her and her mother having fun with the nice outdoor, captioning it, “Tennessee ladies.”
The duo even loved a dance class collectively in 2017.
“Transferring it! Love how my mother has such spirit and retains up with us although Neda and I always change issues halfway,” Doherty captioned the clip of them exhibiting off their dance strikes.
On an episode of her podcast Let’s Be Clear in April, the Charmed star stated that her “precedence” was her mom amid her ongoing well being struggles.
“As a result of it’s going to be so arduous on her, I would like different issues to be so much simpler,” she stated on the time. “I don’t need her to have a bunch of stuff to cope with. I don’t need her to have 4 storage models full of furnishings.”
Doherty added that she had begun the method of sorting her belongings, along with giving up her dream of getting a property in Tennessee.
“It was actually arduous and actually emotional as a result of, to a sure extent, I felt like I used to be giving up on this dream of constructing this property out, and placing a home for me and a home for my mother after which extending the barn,” she admitted, however referred to as it “the correct factor to do.”
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PEOPLE confirmed on Sunday, July 14, that Doherty died after years of dwelling with most cancers.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that I verify the passing of actress Shannen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13, she misplaced her battle with most cancers after a few years of preventing the illness,” the actress’ longtime publicist, Leslie Sloane, stated in a press release.
“The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and good friend 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,” Sloane continued.
