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The Charmed sisters are making it known there is no bad blood there.
Actress Rose McGowan who is known from her role as Paige Matthews on the hit series Charmed, got the role as another Halliwell half-sister after Shannen Doherty left the show as Prue Halliwell in 2001. Immediately there were rumors of a feud between McGowan and Doherty, but now it seems McGowan is making an effort to put all of that behind them with a heartfelt and lengthy Instagram post seemingly supporting Doherty in her breast cancer battle.
McGowan shared an illustration on Instagram of a woman with no hair standing beside a woman with a scarf around her head which is a style Dohery has been sporting since undergoing chemotherapy. “Dear @theshando Someone made this of us & I wanted to share it with you as it made me reflect,” she began her post.
“As young women we were pitted against each other for society’s pleasure. The rules of Hollywood engagement brainwashed into us were truly vile. The men & brainwashed women in our business made it so we couldn’t be friends. I regret that.”
After reflecting on how they were made to hate each other for no good reason, McGown also wrote, “Shannen, we didn’t know it yet, but we were the good ones. Two boss young women that scared the ‘faux-liberals’ in provincial Hollywood, for that sin we got burned at the stake, egged on by Hollywood who believe the press they start. There was a strongly inferred threat of me being blacklisted in tv as I’d been in film. Instead of understanding that we were a different breed, they tried to crush us, but they couldn’t. I send you strength. #rosearmy #BRAVE #shannendoherty #typos4life.”
As for Doherty, she continues in her battle with cancer and stated she is not letting it get her down. “Cancer has, in a strange way, done some amazing things for me. It’s allowed me to be more me, like much more in touch with who I am, and much more vulnerable and the person that I always was, but I think it got hidden behind a lot of other stuff,” she told ET.