Holly Marie Combs is claiming Alyssa Milano threatened to sue the higher-ups of Charmed if Shannen Doherty wasn’t fired from the WB collection.
“[Producer Jonathan Levin] mentioned, ‘We didn’t imply to [fire Shannen], however we’ve been backed into this nook. We’re mainly on this place the place it’s one or the opposite,’” Combs, 50, recalled throughout the Monday, December 18, episode of Doherty’s “Let’s Be Clear” podcast. “‘We had been advised [by Alyssa] it’s her or [Shannen] and Alyssa has threatened to sue us for a hostile office setting.’”
Combs defined that she and Levin had the dialog throughout a gathering the place Combs requested to go away the present after Doherty’s exit. Combs mentioned she advised the producer that she by no means “needed to do” Charmed with out Doherty, which allegedly triggered Levin to get emotional and reveal particulars behind why Doherty, 52, was truly let go.
Combs additionally claimed that Milano, 51, had constructed a case in opposition to her and Doherty and was allegedly “documenting each time she felt uncomfortable on set.” Combs admitted she was shocked by Milano’s allegations, as she couldn’t bear in mind any “brawls” and even “harsh phrases” exchanged between the trio in public.
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“It was all behind the scenes it was all in a trailer it was nothing that any of our crew seen, that any of our visitor stars ever seen or famous,” she mentioned earlier than praising how beloved Doherty was on set. “There’s not a director that wouldn’t work with you once more. There’s not a crew member that didn’t have a good time working with you. So by as we speak’s requirements, it wouldn’t f—king fly.”
Combs famous that there are folks within the leisure trade who behave badly and “get away with it,” including, “I don’t assume folks perceive that that by no means occurred right here.”
Combs starred on all eight seasons of Charmed, which aired from 1998 to 2006, as center sister Piper Halliwell. Milano portrayed youngest sibling Phoebe, whereas Doherty performed Prue, the eldest of the three. Doherty’s character was abruptly killed off the present on the finish of season 3 and changed with Rose McGowan, who joined the solid as long-lost half-sister Paige Matthews.
“We now have had a protracted and affluent relationship with Shannen and we didn’t wish to maintain her again from what she needed to do,” Spelling Tv mentioned in a 2001 assertion of Doherty’s exit. “We want her all the perfect and much-continued success.”
Whereas Doherty’s causes for leaving the present had been unclear on the time, she opened up about her exit months later amid experiences that she and Milano didn’t get alongside.
“There was an excessive amount of drama on the set and never sufficient ardour for the work,” Doherty advised Leisure Tonight on the time. “You already know, I’m 30 years outdated and I don’t have time for drama in my life anymore. To me it’s type of no matter. I’ll miss Holly so much and that’s actually the one factor I wish to clear up.”
Whereas discussing the subject with Combs on her podcast on Monday, Doherty defined that no one “of their proper thoughts would stop successful present that’s paying them a ton of cash [and] that they loved doing.”
“I lived a 12 months after [leaving the show] type of replaying every part in my mind and actually looking for these moments and I couldn’t discover them,” Doherty mentioned. She alleged that she and Milano “by no means had it out” with one another, saying she couldn’t “bear in mind being imply to [Alyssa] on set.” She hypothesized that disagreements over her private web site or pay disparities may have contributed to the stress.
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Combs, in the meantime, defended Doherty for doing all she may to maintain issues optimistic between the three on-screen sisters and questioned if Doherty’s earlier firing from Beverly Hills, 90210 — additionally helmed by Spelling Tv — contributed to her being fired from Charmed. (Doherty starred as Brenda Walsh for 4 seasons on 90210 earlier than she was let go amid alleged stress between her and different members of the solid.)
“Beforehand you had mentioned with [producers] that the stress was getting excessive and also you didn’t desire a reply of what had occurred earlier than,” Combs recalled. “So that you had been preemptively attempting to work it out. And I ponder … as a result of they’d recognized they’d [fired you] earlier than, and 90210 went on … I nearly marvel in the event that they had been OK with the publicity.”
Whereas Combs and Doherty claimed that Milano’s allegations had been the explanation for the BH90210 actress’ exit, Milano has beforehand denied figuring out why Doherty left the present.
“I don’t know if she bought fired, we by no means actually came upon what occurred,” she mentioned throughout a 2013 episode of Watch What Occurs Stay With Andy Cohen, admitting that there have been “positively some tough days” between the three ladies.
Milano alleged that Combs and Doherty’s friendship contributed to the issue, saying, “Holly and Shannen had been finest buddies for like 10 years earlier than the present began so it was very a lot type of like highschool. I might hope that in our thirties it wouldn’t really feel like that anymore.”
In 2021, Milano advised ET that she and Doherty had been “cordial” and that she takes “accountability for lots” of the issues between them. “I feel plenty of our wrestle got here from feeling that I used to be in competitors reasonably than it being that sisterhood that the present was a lot about. And I’ve some guilt about my half in that,” she mentioned.
Us Weekly has reached out to Milano for remark.
