Witch, please.
Shannen Doherty is blaming her “Charmed” co-star — and infamous rival — Alyssa Milano, as well as her family, for causing a rift between her and Holly Marie Combs.
Combs, 50, appeared on the “Let’s Be Clear With Shannen Doherty” podcast Monday where the co-stars discussed the notorious tension between the leads of the show.
“There was a competitiveness with Alyssa,” Doherty, 52, explained. “I heard she addressed it in her book. Obviously, I’m never reading her book because it’s [titled] ‘Sorry Not Sorry,’ so right there it tells me you’re not freaking sorry. Why mention something in that case? There was also competitiveness about you. Which was really interesting of [her] trying to pull you away from me and that transpired in that second season.”
“Charmed” ran on The WB from 1998 to 2006. While filming the show’s second season in 1999, Doherty said her dad was “in and out of the hospital nonstop” as Combs also battled with her own health issues, including undergoing surgery after doctors found a large tumor in her uterus.
Doherty, who is currently in the midst of a battle with cancer, reminisced about how Milano and her made it difficult to visit with Combs after she got the procedure to remove the tumor.
“Hospitals scared me to death,” Doherty continued. “I waited 24 hours after your surgery to go and then it wasn’t even easy for me to get in. I was like being told I couldn’t even get in.”
She added, “Alyssa and her mom were blocking people from seeing you and at the time you didn’t know. I remember you texted me, ‘Dude are you going to come and see me?’”
Doherty admitted that Comb’s message made her feel awful and like she had “abandoned” her in her time of healing.
“I also felt my anger at the situation of not being allowed to come see you and how a sort of family had swooped in,” Doherty explained. “[It] caused a weird divide between the two of us that continued throughout season 2. I think I cried every single night.”
Combs agreed with Doherty’s recollection, adding, “there was a lot going on behind the scenes.”
“I think it was pretty obvious I was raised by teenage parents and I didn’t have a big family,” Combs replied. “So you’re right, when a family swooped in and tried to basically adopt me it was very seductive for me.”
She continued: “I also wanted everybody to get along. I wanted the show to be successful. There were no angels, there were no demons. We all had bad days, we all had good days. We all could have behaved better at certain points but there was a lack of awareness of a bigger broader picture.”
The Post has contacted reps for Milano for comment.
Milano left “Charmed” at the end of Season 3 amid rumors of the friction between her and Milano getting more intense.
But while promoting her book in 2021, Milano claimed the pair were “cordial.”
“You know, I could take responsibility for a lot of our tension that we had. I think a lot of our struggle came from feeling that I was in competition rather than it being that sisterhood that the show was so much about. And I have some guilt about my part in that.”
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