Sarah Michelle Gellar is remembering her dear friend Shannen Doherty on the one year anniversary of her death.
On Sunday, July 13, Gellar, 48, shared a video featuring a series of photos of the pair posing for the camera. The Buffy actress captioned the post with a broken heart emoji and set it to Wiz Khalifa’s “See You Again” featuring Charlie Puth.
Doherty died on July 13, 2024, after a lengthy battle with cancer. She was 53.
“It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty. On Saturday, July 13, she lost her battle with cancer after many years of fighting the disease,” Doherty’s publicist, Leslie Sloan, said in a statement to Us Weekly at the time. “The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones as well as her dog, Bowie. The family asks for their privacy at this time so they can grieve in peace.”
The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer in 2015. She shared the news nearly three years after she went into remission.
“It’s going to come out in a matter of days or a week that — I’m stage IV. So my cancer came back. And that’s why I’m here,” she said during an appearance on Good Morning America at the time. “I don’t think I’ve processed it. It’s a bitter pill to swallow in a lot of ways.”
In February 2020, Doherty revealed in a lawsuit against State Farm that she was “dying” of terminal cancer, according to court documents obtained by Us. Her attorney alleged that she was unable to live “her remaining years peacefully in her home” due in part to the legal dispute, which stemmed from damage to her home caused by the 2018 Woolsey Fire. (A jury later awarded her $6.3 million in damages.)
Months later, she told her bff Gellar that her diagnosis was not a “death sentence,” adding at the time that she felt “strong and healthy and confident and happy.”
During her cancer battle, Doherty and her then-husband Kurt Iswarienko split after 11 yars of marriage in April 2023. “Divorce is the last thing Shannon wanted. Unfortunately, she felt she was left with no other option,” a source told Us at the time.
A few months later, she revealed via Instagram that her breast cancer had spread to her brain. “January 12, the first round of radiation took place. My fear is obvious. I am extremely claustrophobic and there was a lot going on in my life,” Doherty captioned a video of herself tearfully undergoing treatment. “That fear … The turmoil … the timing of it all … This is what cancer can look like.”
