Shannen Doherty files for divorce after 11-year marriage, hints at reason on Instagram
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Shannen Doherty, star of the hit shows “Charmed” and “Beverly Hills, 90210,” has filed for divorce from husband Kurt Iswarienko after 11 years of marriage, her representative said.
“Divorce is the last thing Shannon wanted,” publicist Leslie Sloan said in an emailed statement Saturday. “Unfortunately, he felt he had no other option left.”
In early 2020, Doherty, now 52, announced she was battling a recurrence of breast cancer, which had progressed to stage four, calling it “a bitter pill to swallow”.
“I definitely have days where I say, ‘Why me?’ And then I go, ‘Well, why not me? Who else? Who else deserves it besides me?’ None of us do,” Doherty told “Good Morning America”.
The actor first revealed that she had breast cancer in 2015 and has charted her battle with the disease on social media.
Doherty didn’t mention the development of the divorce on Instagram, but wrote in a post on Friday: “The only people who deserve to be in your life are those who treat you with love, kindness and absolute respect. “
In October 2021, a federal jury in Los Angeles awarded Doherty $6.3 million in a lawsuit alleging that State Farm, her insurance carrier, was not adequately compensated for damages to her home in the 2018 California wildfires. failed to pay. The jury found the failure to pay policy benefits for Doherty’s Malibu home “improper and without reasonable cause.”
In his statement, Doherty’s publicist Sloane suggested contacting Iswarenko’s agent, whom he identified as Collier Grimm, for an extension. Grimm did not immediately respond to a message sent for comment.
