Charmed’s Alyssa Milano Still Feels Guilty for Shannen Doherty Quitting

When the Charmed reboot’s Madeleine Mantock lately announced that she can be leaving the present after its third season, it was not possible to not discover the parallels between the continuing CW collection and its WB predecessor from the mid-‘90s starring Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, and Alyssa Milano. Coincidentally enough, the latter is in the news once more to talk about old drama.

Though Prue (Doherty), the eldest of the Halliwell sisters, had become the most powerful of the “Charmed Ones” as she fought the forces of evil with her fellow witches, the season three finale saw her meet an untimely and convoluted end. After Prue’s powers are uncovered to the world, her youngest sister Phoebe (Milano) crafted a plan to journey into the previous with the intention to change historical past and hold magic a secret, and whereas Phoebe’s plan works, it inadvertently led to Prue’s loss of life. As a lot time as Charmed spent harping on the significance of the Power of Three—the distinctive familial magic the Halliwell sisters shared as a trio—it was genuinely stunning how little vitality the collection spent unpacking Prue’s loss of life, and the way shortly she was in the end changed by her secret half-sister Paige (Rose McGowan.)

Prue’s exit is one thing Charmed’s solely ever bothered to discover in a handful of plots from the Charmed comics that got here after the unique TV present’s cancellation. For years, although, there’s been a large quantity of hypothesis about off-camera friction between Doherty and Milano being the true motive, and in keeping with Milano, there’s some reality to that. In a latest interview with Entertainment Weekly about her upcoming ebook, Sorry Not Sorry, Milano mentioned that whereas she and Doherty are on “cordial” phrases, she owns as much as letting her personal competitiveness affect her relationship together with her co-star. “I can take responsibility for a lot of our tension that we had, feeling that I was in competition rather than it being that sisterhood that the show was so much about,” Milano mentioned. “I have some guilt about my part in that.”

Following Prue’s loss of life, Charmed modified considerably because the Halliwells adjusted to the revelation of their long-lost sibling’s existence, and discovered what Paige meant for the three Charmed Ones. Though the collection by no means fairly had a “leader,” with Prue out of the image, each Phoebe and Piper took on expanded obligations (and plot traces) because the household’s most skilled witches. Though Charmed was capable of finding a brand new footing ultimately, the way in which Prue by no means popped up once more—in stark distinction to a number of different characters on the present—all the time stood out as a form of mark on the collection and a reminder that issues may have performed out a lot completely different.

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Milano mentioned that listening to phrase of Doherty’s analysis with breast most cancers in 2015 was what pushed her to lastly attain out to her fellow actress in an try to make amends, and the way, if she may have dealt with issues on the Charmed set otherwise, she would have. “I have respect for her,” Milano mentioned of Doherty. “[She’s a] great actress, loves her family so much, and I just wish I could’ve felt strong enough in who I was to recognize that [back] then.”

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