‘Don’t Cry!’: Shannen Doherty Brings Chelsea Handler to Tears in Interview About Her Cancer

Shannen Doherty, who was once one of Hollywood’s most notorious “bad girls,” was diagnosed with cancer last summer. Doherty recently appeared on Chelsea Handler‘s Netflix talkshow and spoke about the impact breast cancer has had on her life.

She said this:

I think what’s beautiful and hard and interesting about cancer is that it tears you down and builds you, and tears you down and builds you, and remakes you so many different times. So the person that I thought I was going to be or that I thought I was six months ago, is now somebody completely different. I really thought that I was so brave and so courageous this entire time, and really, I was just hiding. And I was —

She stopped herself and said, “Don’t cry!”

Handler, who had gotten emotional, took a moment to compose herself.

Watch the whole thing above.

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