Rose McGowan Addresses Friendship With Shannen Doherty & Expresses a Regret

Rose McGowan is opening up about the late Shannen Doherty.

The 50-year-old star, who replaced the late actress on Charmed when she left the WB show in 2001, opened up about their friendship on the August 22 episode of Let’s Be Clear.

During the appearance, Rose expressed if she had any regrets.

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“[If] I have any regrets, I wish I could have gotten to know her sooner,” she said. “I don’t know how that would have happened, but I wish we could have.”

She added that she and Shannen both shared an outsider status, and preferred directing to acting, as well as elaborating on their shared dislike for “corporate feminism… like slogans and fake activists and people that are just doing it for the clicks and the glory but without putting in actually the work and the trauma that it takes to do that work.”

“She lived life on a grand scale with gusto. And just badass fun. One of the things we learned, I think, from each other by being outspoken was actually how much more similar we were than different,” Rose recalled.

She and Shannen got to spend quality time together, “just me and her, for the first time ever,” about a month before Shannen‘s death.

“We actually didn’t want the night to end. And it was both wholesome and — that word is so dorky, but here we are — it was sweet. She told me stuff that I had never known, and I told her stuff that she didn’t know. And she had some questions for me, and I answered them and vice versa.”

Rose also said that Shannen asked her to join her on the podcast and told her she was starting an experimental treatment.

“And I had a feeling when she said about the treatment, I just had this feeling that this was not really going to go well. And she looked frightened for the first time. She was frightened. And I gave her a big hug, and I told her I loved her. I do regret not doing the podcast with her. But at the same time, I think, because so much of our relationship had played out publicly, that to have that period of time just for us, was really special.”

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