Charmed is beloved by a number of generations of followers all over the world — however a brand new declare from Holly Marie Combs means that the behind-the-scenes drama of the hit sequence was something however charming.
In an interview on her Charmed costar Shannen Doherty’s podcast Let’s Be Clear, Combs mentioned that Alyssa Milano had Doherty fired from the sequence after its third season. Combs recalled a dialog she had with producer Jonathan Levin. “He mentioned, you recognize, ‘We’re principally able the place it is one or the opposite. We have been advised [by Alyssa] that it is [Shannen] or me and Alyssa has threatened to sue us for a hostile office setting’ — which as a result of she went to the therapist or the mediator or the company mediator, regardless of the heck his title is, she constructed a case for herself the place she was documenting each time she felt uncomfortable on set and for no matter purpose, whereas you and I refused to talk to him. In order that’s the place the deck was stacked.”
Reps for Milano didn’t instantly reply to EW’s request for remark.
Doherty acknowledged that she needed to make clear the narrative round her exit from the present. “I do not assume that there is anyone of their proper thoughts that will stop successful present that is paying them an excellent sum of money that they really actually take pleasure in engaged on, which was my deal. Like I loved it,” she mentioned. “I keep in mind [my representatives] taking a look at me on the time and mentioned, ‘no, no, no, your profession will not survive one other firing. So we’re simply going to say that you simply selected to go away.’ And keep in mind I began laughing, going, ‘Who’s going to consider that I am loopy sufficient to go away successful present?’”
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Doherty additionally struggled to recall any supply of rigidity that will have irritated Milano. “I lived a yr after that, form of replaying all the things in my mind and actually like looking for these moments… I could not discover them. We by no means had it out, not privately or publicly.”
On the earlier episode of the podcast, the duo recalled how Milano and her mom tried to separate them up on the Charmed set. “It was actually fascinating of [her] making an attempt to tug you away from me,” Doherty mentioned. Their efforts went to this point that they allegedly tried to forestall Doherty from seeing Combs within the hospital after she had surgical procedure. “Alyssa and her mother have been blocking individuals from seeing you and on the time you didn’t know. I keep in mind you texted me, ‘Dude, are you going to return and see me?’”
Milano says that she has made amends along with her costars. In a 2021 interview with Leisure Tonight, Milano acknowledged how her competitiveness affected relationships along with her solid mates.
“You recognize, I might take duty for lots of our rigidity that we had,” Milano advised Leisure Tonight. “I believe plenty of our battle got here from feeling that I used to be in competitors slightly than it being that sisterhood that the present was a lot about. And I’ve some guilt about my half in that.”
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