Tori Spelling writes heartbreaking tribute to 90210 co-star Shannen Doherty on first anniversary of her death
The actress, 52, put aside her financial troubles on Sunday to remember her longtime pal who lost her life to breast cancer at age 53 in an emotional tribute on social media.
Sharing a carousel of photos of herself and Doherty, Spelling wrote, 'It's been a year.'
Continuing, she described her state of mind as she looked back at her loss.
'Grief is weird. It presents itself in different ways and at different times but never fades. Just like your memory. In fact, it burns epically in my soul more and more as the days pass.'
'You and I already told the beginning of our story. The evolution of our story. Now I'm living the after,' she went on.
The influencer then wrote about the lessons she had learned from Doherty.
'You always told me to stop apologizing for myself. To stop playing small. To stop trying to be palatable when I was born to be powerful,' she wrote.
'You taught me to turn my power on and let it shine. Some people will sit in the uncomfortableness of the brightness while others will be empowered by my flame.'
Spelling said she has used that knowledge revealing, 'This year, I've tried hard to be the power you believed I could be.'
'I'm not afraid to say while I made progress in many ways I failed in others. But failure is a lesson not a sentence on our journey.'
'I've honored you by telling the truth louder. By choosing softness when I could've chosen armor. And by saying 'no' more than I ever used to—because you would've.'
After sharing that she would continue to pass the torch, Spelling ended her message on a positive note, 'stay wild. stay rebellious. your power is your cause.'
The pair met in 1990 when they both worked on Beverly Hills 90210. Doherty was fired from the show in 1994, but they two maintained a strong friendship, in spite of the ups and downs in each of their lives.
Spelling included a black and white graphic with the saying bolding printed on it at the end of the carousel.
Doherty died at the age of 53 after years of living with breast cancer.
The star, who played Brenda Walsh in the hit 1990s show, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015.
Just two years later, the Charmed star revealed that the cancer had returned after going into remission.
In October 1990, Doherty starred in the original Beverly Hills 90210, but left the series after the fourth season in 1994. She came back to the show as a guest star in 2008 after it rebooted.
Following the popular series, she went on to star in the witch drama, Charmed. Doherty played Prue Halliwell, the oldest of the three witch sisters.
After directing several episodes of Charmed, Doherty left the series in 2001. She then moved on to reality television, as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars and in the show Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty.
She joined the 2019 reboot of 90210 and played the adult version of Brenda Walsh.
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