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   Sarah Michelle Gellar Opens Up About Shannen Doherty: Cancer Does Not   
   ‘Define Her’   
      
           [video interview]   
      
      
      Sarah Michelle Gellar Opens Up About Shannen Doherty: Cancer Does Not   
   ‘Define Her’   
   By Emily Longeretta February 11, 2020   
      
      
   Standing by her side. Sarah Michelle Gellar opened up about her good friend   
   Shannen Doherty‘s battle with stage IV cancer — revealing that her friend   
   is   
   stronger than anyone knows.   
      
      
   “I’ve obviously had a lot more time to digest this. She was forced to come   
   out with this information, and I think that what makes it really hard is the   
   way everyone looks at you now. And I think that’s why for so long she   
   didn’t   
   want people to know,” Gellar, 42, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting   
   Cascade’s “Do It Every Night” campaign on Tuesday, February 11. “Now   
   everywhere she goes, she sort of, she gets that look — and it’s not   
   anyone’s   
   fault, you can’t help it because you love her and you feel sympathy.”   
      
      
   The Charmed alum, 48, and the former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star have been   
   pals since the late 1990s, when they both starred on series on The WB at the   
   same time.   
      
      
   “This girl has had this diagnosis — she shot an entire season of a   
   television show. She looked beautiful. She worked 16 hour days. I think   
   people have to remember that life is tough, but Shannen’s a lot tougher,”   
   Gellar added. “Cancer is not something that defines her. It’s an experience   
   that’s certainly changed her — and changed all of us. It has its ups and   
   its   
   downs, but I think that it’s made the world see the side of Shannen that   
   I’ve   
   always known.”   
      
      
   On February 4, the Beverly Hills: 90210 alum revealed her cancer had   
   returned. In an interview, she explained that she still wanted to shoot   
   BH90210 to honor the late Luke Perry, who passed away before the reboot   
   began filming. “One of the reasons, along with Luke, that I did 90210 and   
   didn’t really tell anybody [was] because I thought, ‘People can look at   
   that   
   [and see] other people with stage IV can work too,'” she said at the time.   
   “Like, you know, our life doesn’t end the minute we get that diagnosis. We   
   still have some living to do.”   
      
      
   Sarah Michelle Gellar and Shannen Doherty at The 2019 American Humane Hero   
   Dog Awards on October 5, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. John   
   Salangsang/Invision/AP/Shutterstock   
   Additionally, she knew the news was going to come out due to a lawsuit she   
   was involved in with State Farm; she sued the insurance company after her   
   California home was damaged in the 2018 Woolsey Fire and claimed her losses   
   should have been covered. In the documents, she stated that she had terminal   
   cancer and hoped to live her “remaining years peacefully in her home.”   
      
      
   “She’s a tough chick on the outside, but she’s not necessarily on the   
   inside,” Gellar told Us. “And now I think people know that. So just   
   remember   
   that she’s been dealing with this for a long time and I think it’s   
   unfortunate how in this world we’re forced to be able to say truths that   
   maybe we’re not ready for other people, that we’re still digesting   
   ourselves.”   
      
   For more from Gellar and her campaign with husband Freddie Prinze Jr., watch   
   the interview above.   
      
      
   David   
      
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