Shannen Doherty Clarifies Jason Priestley Comments as Former Beverly Hills, 90210 Co-Star Tweets "Love" for Her

Plus, find out how Holly Marie Combs feels about Alyssa Milano

By Zach Johnson Jan 20, 2015 1:41 PMTags
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Shannen Doherty insists she didn't diss Jason Priestley.

Last week, during an interview on Jenny Hutt's Sirius XM radio show, the actress addressed claims made by her former Beverly Hills, 90210 co-star in his book, Jason Priestley: A Memoir. After the podcast aired, Priestley reached out to Doherty via Twitter, writing, " I don't know what to say..." He also tweeted, "PS. Love you Shannen... I had nothing but love for you in my book...had u read it u would have seen..."

Doherty clarified her comments about Priestley, telling People that he "just said he loves me."

The 43-year-old actress admitted that she felt "bamboozled" by the press attention her radio interview received. "We were 18. Who cares?" she said of her drama with Priestley. "To keep rehashing stuff from when we were 18 years old it's like, 'Man, who's stuck in the '90s?' It's not me! I'd like to move past it."

Holly Marie Combs, who also stars in Great American Country's Off the Map with Shannen and Holly, came to her defense, saying she's seen Priestley "wax poetically about her and tell her how great she is."

"Maybe he should have talked about that memory instead," the Pretty Little Liars star argued.

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Doherty has a history of feuding with her co-stars, of course.

Regarding their falling out with Alyssa Milano, the actresses' Charmed co-star, Combs didn't deny that there was drama, saying, "People should take comfort in knowing we were like real sisters, meaning we got along a lot, we were at each other's weddings, we didn't speak sometimes, we hated each other sometimes [and] we wanted to punch each other in the face sometimes. We were really like sisters."

In a July 2013 interview on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live, Milano recalled her time on The WB series. "Holly and Shannen were best friends for like 10 years before the show started, so it was very much sort of like high school. I would hope that in our thirties it wouldn't be like that anymore...I never went to a high school because I was tutored on the set, but I imagine it would have been a lot like that."

During a Fox News interview Monday, Doherty declined to comment on Milano's recollection.

"You know what? I think it's high school for us to talk about it," she said. "Let's just let it be."

Combs agreed with Doherty's suggestion, saying, "The only thing I would like to do is to promote a new show, and I don't want to use an old show to do that. If my new show needs my old show's publicity than my new show ain't that good. When people talk about stuff like that it's to sell a book. If you're selling a book and your present life isn't so great, then maybe let's not talk about the past so much."