Jennie Garth Remembers Shannen Doherty ‘Assessing’ Her Boyfriends

Jennie Garth recalled her late pal Shannen Doherty taking an curiosity in her love life after her first divorce.

“I used to be remembering, like, there [were] instances after we stopped filming [Beverly Hills, 90210] and I used to be newly divorced — I feel — and he or she took a particular curiosity [in] whoever I used to be relationship,” Garth, 52, mentioned of Doherty, who died at age 53 on July 13, in the course of the Tuesday, July 23, episode of her and Tori Spelling’s “90210MG” podcast. “She needed to fulfill them, principally vet them, I suppose.”

Garth was married to musician Daniel B. Clark from 1994 to 1996, and Beverly Hills, 90210 aired from 1990 to 2000. She famous on Tuesday that though Doherty didn’t know her second husband, Peter Facinelli, “that effectively” when she married him in 2001, she did dimension up a few of her different romantic companions from that period.

“We went to dinner with two of my quote-unquote boyfriends throughout that bizarre time, and I simply bear in mind her simply actually really checking them out from throughout the desk and assessing them,” Garth recalled. “After which I’d be like, ‘What do you assume?’ And she or he would inform me.”

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Earlier than Doherty started weighing in on Garth’s romantic life, the previous costars had their ups and downs. Their Beverly Hills, 90210 characters, Brenda Walsh (Doherty) and Kelly Taylor (Garth), have been frenemies, and the drama typically continued offscreen. Nevertheless, Garth mentioned in the course of the Thursday, July 18, episode of her “I Select Me” podcast that she desires followers of the teenager drama to look past her and Doherty’s at-times “sophisticated” dynamic.

“There’s been this loopy division in a few of the followers that they have been both Workforce Kelly or they have been Workforce Brenda, and I don’t assume that both Shannen or I ever needed that,” Garth shared. “[Her death] is a time after we can come collectively and course of this all with one another. That’s my hope.”

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The What I Like About You alum added that she and Doherty “liked one another” though their relationship was “convoluted at instances by outdoors forces that simply form of crept in for us each.”

Though Doherty had lengthy been outspoken about her stage 4 most cancers, Garth and Spelling, 51, who additionally starred on Beverly Hills, 90210, spoke on Tuesday about their shared disbelief over her demise.

“She has proven her total life and profession … that she will be able to get previous something,” Spelling mentioned. “So, though we all know most cancers is so evil and takes everybody that we love, I suppose she made you consider that she was the one that might make it.”

Garth added that she “by no means thought” Doherty would die from most cancers.

“Simply understanding what we learn about her — what a troublesome, like, fighter, [and] sturdy [person she is] — it simply appeared like it will by no means get her,” she mentioned. “After which when it did, it was simply stunning.”