Shannen Doherty was 'comfortable and sleeping and transitioning' in the last few hours before passing away at age 53 from breast cancer: 'She wasn't ready to leave because she loved life'

Shannen Doherty was 'surrounded by immoderate of her very adjacent friends' successful nan 'last fewer hours' earlier her tragic passing astatine property 53 from bosom cancer.

The character died connected Saturday while pinch her loved ones, and was 'in a spot wherever she was comfortable and sleeping and transitioning,' her friend, oncologist Dr. Lawrence D. Piro told People magazine.

She was fixed 'a batch of attraction and support' while surrounded by her 'select group' of friends and family pinch her, arsenic good arsenic her beloved canine Bowie.

'It was somber and sad, but beautiful and loving. The hardest point astir this was that she wasn't fresh to time off because she loved life,' Dr. Piro added. 

The character was first diagnosed pinch bosom crab successful 2015, and went into remission successful 2017.

The crab returned successful 2019, and she announced it successful 2020, revealing that she had shape 4 crab and that it dispersed to her brain.

Shannen's publicist Leslie Sloane announced her decease connected Sunday via a statement: 'On Saturday, July 13, she mislaid her conflict pinch crab aft galore years of fighting nan disease.

'The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones arsenic good arsenic her canine Bowie. The family asks for their privateness astatine this clip truthful they tin grieve successful peace.'

Gabrielle Carteris, who played Andrea successful nan iconic series, besides remarked astir Luke successful her Shannen tribute.

'I cognize Luke is location pinch unfastened arms to emotion you,' successful her tribute, arsenic reported by People.

Just this past February, Doherty sewage affectional erstwhile she shared astir nan clip she learned of Perry's decease while attending a sheet astatine MegaCon Orlando.

'It was shocking,' Doherty said of nan nonaccomplishment of her erstwhile co-star and friend.

'I person a very visceral guidance whenever personification brings up Luke because arsenic personification pinch cancer— and a really horrible crab astatine shape 4 — I thought I would beryllium nan first to go. So erstwhile it was Luke, it really conscionable sent maine for a tailspin.'

Heartbroken complete his loss, Doherty yet recovered nan spot to stock a tribute to Perry connected societal media nan time aft he died.

'Yesterday greeting I sewage a telephone telephone that devastated me,' she began successful nan caption pinch evident emotion to her words.

'I'm struggling pinch this nonaccomplishment and americium having a difficult clip pinch my thoughts. But, my bosom goes retired to his family and friends who were blessed by his ray successful their (and mine) lives. Processing this is intolerable correct now.'

It turns retired she and Perry wanted to create immoderate caller onscreen magic together, and were trying to find nan correct accumulation to activity connected together.

'There is simply a typical benignant of emotion 1 has for each different erstwhile you are experiencing nan travel we did connected 90210 and of people life successful general,' Doherty said, earlier revealing, 'Luke and I were moving connected show ideas for us. We wanted to activity pinch each different again and create thing typical and meaningful for our fans astatine this shape successful our lives.'

She added, 'I will miss him everyday. Every minute. Every second.'

During that aforesaid question and reply pinch People successful 2019, nan Memphis, Tennessee autochthonal revealed that she past saw Luke Perry erstwhile 'they met up for lunch' only a fewer weeks earlier his death.

'I walked successful and location he was, smiling, pinch his canine Penny and her furniture nether nan booth, happy arsenic tin be,' she recalled. 'I will ne'er hide — and will miss — Luke looking astatine maine pinch that grin of his saying … "Shan."'

While attending a 90210 sheet astatine RewindCon Chicago, weeks earlier his decease successful 2019, Perry heaped precocious praise connected Doherty, telling nan audience, 'None of america are up present coming without Shannen.'

He proceeded to share, 'The reality is that she was a very large portion of nan occurrence of nan program. She taught maine a batch and I'm conscionable really gladsome she was location for maine arsenic a segment partner.'

They besides connected aft her crab test and they 'picked correct backmost up, albeit older and wiser, but that relationship remained successful tact.'

She described him arsenic a 'smart, quiet, humble and analyzable man pinch a bosom of golden and never-ending good of integrity and love.'

Jennie Garth, Shannen's co-star connected 90210, paid tribute to her connected Sunday: 'I americium still processing my tremendous condolences complete nan nonaccomplishment of my agelong clip friend Shannen, nan female I person often described arsenic 1 of nan strongest group I person ever known.'

Adding: 'Our relationship was existent and honest. We were truthful often pitted against each different but nary of that reflected nan truth of our existent narration which was 1 built connected communal respect and admiration,' she said.

Fellow 90210 co-star Jason Priestley said: 'Shocked and saddened to perceive astir nan passing of my friend Shannen. She was a unit of quality and I will miss her. Sending emotion and ray to her family successful this acheronian time.'

Brian Austin Green, who besides starred successful 90210, said: 'Shan. My sister... You loved maine done everything. You were a large portion of my knowing of love. I'll miss you much that I cognize really to process correct now. Thank you for nan gift of you.' 

Shannen spent her last weeks enduring nan 'hardest time' she had ever knowledgeable pinch cancer.

At nan extremity of June, she told her friend Katherine Heigl, 45, she was going done hellhole pinch nan disease.

She told her chap prima connected her 'Let's Be Clear' podcast: 'I sewage crab successful 2015, and it went to remission, I think, correct astatine nan extremity of 2017 aliases astatine nan opening of 2018, and past it came backmost successful 2019 arsenic shape 4 bosom cancer, but past it dispersed to my bones. And from there, it dispersed to my brain.'

'There's truthful galore protocols. Eventually – it's shape 4 crab – yet those protocols are gonna extremity working.

'And you conscionable dream that you are connected 1 agelong capable for them to really travel up pinch different protocol and different protocol... truthful it's really hard.

'This is astir apt nan hardest clip for maine that I've ever had pinch nan cancer. I've ever kinda felt very affirmative and, like, I tin woody pinch it, and this is decidedly for illustration – I'm overly emotional.'

'I wanna outcry each azygous 2nd astatine bully aliases bad (things.)'

'What's really beautiful astir it is, I deliberation you go truthful incredibly delicate that your eyes are, like, wide unfastened to everything astir you, to people, to really they react, to what you tin perchance do that's amended for nan world, like, what your intent present is,' she said.

'Because I deliberation I struggled pinch that benignant of my full life, being a kid character and past increasing up acting, and I conscionable ne'er felt for illustration I was accepted.

'I always, you know, looked astatine nan 'Friends' unit and was like, 'Oh my god. I wanna bent retired pinch Jen Aniston and Courteney Cox.'

'And, you know, 'Why doesn't anybody judge me, and why americium I ever called nan bad girl?'

'For me, crab was that infinitesimal wherever I was like, 'Oh, hellhole no.'

'I don't request to bent retired pinch immoderate of these people. I request to make judge I'm happy and surviving nan champion life that I tin while I'm still alive.'