Charmed and Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty has given a heartbreaking assessment of her tumultuous love-life, which has included three marriages.
The 52-year-old actress, who is battling stage four cancer, opened up about her difficult relationships on her Let’s Be Clear podcast, including the breakdown of her marriage to third husband Kurt Iswarienko.
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Despite claiming that Iswarienko had been unfaithful to her in the midst of her cancer treatment, Doherty believed it was she who had “failed” at marriage.
“I am horrified that I can’t keep a relationship together,” she said.
“I’ve failed three times at marriage. But I still believe in love.”
Doherty claimed on her podcast that Iswarienko had been cheating on her for two years — and she found out on the day she went in for brain surgery.
The Hollywood star said she had feared she wouldn’t make it through the surgery and was feeling “so betrayed” by Iswarienko.
“I went in after I found out that my marriage was essentially over, that my husband had been carrying on an affair for two years,” she alleged.
“Even though, being very clear, he wanted to go, I couldn’t go into that surgery with him there.
“I felt so betrayed.
“At the end of the day, I just felt so incredibly unloved by someone I was with for 14 years, by someone I loved with all my heart.
“If you share 14 years together and you cheated, doesn’t that person deserve the absolute truth regardless of how much that hurts them?”
Doherty filed for divorce in April 2023.
“Divorce is the last thing Shannen wanted. Unfortunately, she felt she was left with no other option,” Doherty’s publicist Leslie Sloane said at the time.
Doherty shared a cryptic message to Instagram a few hours before the news broke.
“The only people who deserve to be in your life are the ones who treat you with love, kindness and total respect,” she said.
Iswarienko refuted the cheating claims, saying the pair had been living apart for two years and claiming that he and Doherty had agreed to have an “open marriage”, a claim the actress later denied in a series of furious Instagram posts.
The pair had been married since 2011, with Iswarienko becoming Doherty’s third husband.
She wed her second husband Rick Salomon in 2002 but the marriage was annulled after nine months.
Salomon, an American poker player, became notorious when a sex tape featuring him and Paris Hilton was leaked online the year after he and Doherty wed.
“It ended up being very embarrassing for me — and humiliating and disgusting,” Doherty later told the Chicago Tribune about the sex tape scandal.
Doherty’s first husband was actor Ashley Hamilton, to whom she was married between 1993 and 1994.
They had reportedly only known each other for two weeks before tying the knot.
Doherty claimed that their marriage troubles, including Hamilton’s battle with substance abuse, contributed to her being fired from 90210 after the fourth season because she was always late to arrive on set.
“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 said on a Let’s Be Clear podcast with former co-star Jason Priestley.
“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.
“It wasn’t anybody’s responsibility but mine.”
Doherty has also been engaged three times — to fitness club owner Chris Foufas, Max Factor heir Dean Factor, and TV producer Rob Weiss.
Now single, Doherty says her family and friends are her biggest support as she continues to battle stage four cancer.
She recently revealed that she was selling up some of her properties and getting rid of possessions because she wanted an “easier transition” for her mum, Rosa, after she was gone.
“My priority at the moment is my mum,” she revealed.
“I know it’s going to be hard on her if I pass away before her.
“Because it’s going to be so hard on her, I want other things to be a lot easier.”