Alyssa Milano has clarified her contemporary remarks about her behind-the-scenes feud with Charmed costar Shannen Doherty.
“I don’t know one other show that has had the success that Charmed had where the cast still speaks ill of the experience a quarter of a century later. This is 15 movies and 13 TV shows ago for me,” Milano, 51, wrote by means of Instagram on Saturday, February 3. “This was 11 years before my 15-year marriage and 13 years before having my first child. This was so long ago that any retelling of these stories from anyone is just revisionist history.”
Doherty, 52, and previous costar Holly Marie Combs prior to now claimed on a December 2023 episode of Doherty’s “Let’s Be Clear” podcast that Milano was once the explanation that the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum was once fired from Charmed. Milano rebuffed the claims all over a Friday, February 2, look at Megacon in Orlando whilst addressing the display’s toxicity.
“I will add, though, with absolute certainty — everything was documented. There was a professional mediator,” Milano wrote on Saturday, alleging that Doherty and Combs, 50, refused to “participate in any mediation” between the trio. “An on-set producer/babysitter who were both brought in to investigate all claims. It was then recommended by this mediator, after collecting testimony from cast AND crew — what changes should be made if the show was going to continue.”
Milano additional claimed that the TV community, movie studio and writer Aaron Spelling “made the decision to protect the international hit that was Charmed.”
“I did not have the power to get anyone fired. Once Shannen left we had 5 more successful seasons and I am forever grateful,” Milano added. “As always, I wish Holly, Shannen and Rose [McGowan], peace and light in their personal and professional journeys. We all have bigger demons to fight.”
Charmed premiered on The WB in 1998, starring Doherty, Combs and Milano as the 3 Halliwell sisters, who uncover that they're witches. (Milano, for her section, changed Lori Rom as youngest sibling Phoebe after the pilot.) Doherty most effective gave the impression on 3 seasons of Charmed, later claiming that she didn't get alongside smartly with Milano.
“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,” Doherty informed Leisure This night in 2021. “And I have some guilt about my part in that.”
Just about two years later, Combs alleged on Doherty’s podcast in 2023 that manufacturer Jonathan Levin informed her that Milano had threatened to depart the display if Doherty wasn’t let pass. Doherty’s personality was once in the end killed off within the season 3 finale and changed with McGowan, now 50, as long-lost half-sister Paige Matthews.