Shannen Doherty dishes on fight with Jennie Garth on ‘90210’ set

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Shannen Doherty is speaking out on a heated fight she had with her Beverly Hills, 90210 co-star Jennie Garth during the filming of their ’90s teen soap.

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During a conversation with fellow 90210 alum Brian Austin Green on her Let’s Be Clear podcast, the 52-year-old actress spoke about the different dynamic the female and male co-stars had with one another on the show.

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“I recall when tension started happening on the set and it was always awesome to me that the boys got along so well,” Doherty said (per Us Weekly). “You guys were always very supportive of each other and congratulating each other and it wasn’t necessarily the same with the girls.”

Green, 50, interrupted, telling Doherty he thought she was “sugarcoating” the on set drama.

“I remember it got really rough and competitive for you all. That was not an easy situation to watch,” he said.

The Charmed star recalled a dispute between her and Garth that happened off camera.

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“What’s really funny about that fight that was between myself and Jennie, and it started — I don’t know if you remember why it started — she was doing, she was calling it ‘Pants Down Day’ where she would pull the pants on some of the crew members in a funny way, but some of them were getting pretty annoyed with it,” Doherty said.

“And then I reversed it and I said, ‘Skirt up day,’” she went on. “And she always wore the men’s Calvin Klein boxer shorts under her clothes. So I didn’t think it was that big of a deal. And so I did ‘Skirt Up Day’ and, oh my God, she lost it on me and I was just not in the mood to back down.”

The girls’ co-star Ian Ziering joined Green “to keep it from escalating.”

“I remember at one point when there was a fight out front and Ian and I were there,” Green said. “And so, we were the two that stepped into, kind of, the middle of it to keep it from escalating.”

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Doherty’s comments on her rift with Garth come after she spoke about her firing from the show in 1994 in a conversation with Jason Priestley earlier this year.

“Towards my last season, I was in a really horrible marriage, and there were things that were transpiring in that marriage that made it really hard for me to consistently be on time for work,” she told Priestley, who played her twin brother Brandon Walsh, on her podcast in January (per Page Six).

“I know that that became a very big problem for the rest of you, as it should be because if everyone else is on time and you are waiting for one person it sucks,” she continued, adding that her castmates were stuck with longer work days because of her lateness.

Priestley, 54, said he wished he had known what was going on in Doherty’s personal life because it might have changed how he and the rest of her co-stars reacted to her tardiness.

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“I wish that I would have known more about what was happening in your personal life at the time because I could have hopefully managed it with more compassion and more caring, but we only knew what we knew,” he said.

Looking back on her dismissal from the show, which ran for 10 seasons, Doherty said she could have used a pep talk from someone close to her telling her to get her act together.

“I sort of wish I would have been sat down and sort of looked at and said, ‘Listen, the end result is going to be this, you are going to get fired and none of us are willing to put up with it anymore and I understand that you have an issue in your personal life, but that also can’t bleed into work. You have to get your s*** together!’” she said.

Last March, Garth shut down talk that the two were feuding when they appeared at 90s Con in Hartford, Connecticut. Fans were quick to notice that the What I Like About You alum’s social feed had photos with a variety of guests, but not Doherty, who was also in attendance.

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But Garth addressed the drama in a comment on one of her Instagram posts, telling fans to “take a deep breath.”

“1. i simply didn’t have a picture of me with shannon [sic] on my phone to add. 2. i didn’t have access to a shannon banner backstage. Like there wasn’t one lying in the pile. 3. we had almost completely diff schedules so sadly we barely saw each other. 4. stop making assumptions when you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. 5. please stop reaching to paint such a negative narrative. here and everywhere,” Garth wrote.

Doherty’s remarks about her tensions with Garth come after she alleged that her Charmed co-star Alyssa Milano got her fired from that show.

After Milano gave the show’s producers an ultimatum, Doherty’s character was killed off in Season 3 and Rose McGowan joined the cast.

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Milano called the news that she had Doherty fired “revisionist history,” but Doherty fired back during an onstage chat at MegaCon in Orlando last month.

“There is no revisionist history happening in the truth that I know we told,” Doherty clapped back. “There’s no brush flinging or shoe flinging. There is no lateness to set. There is no mediator for months on end,” Doherty shared, in part. “I recall the facts as if I were still living in them. And what I will say is that what somebody else may call ‘drama’ is an actual trauma for me, that I have been living through it for an extremely long time.”

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