Shannen Doherty reveals the heartbreaking news she received before undergoing brain surgery

Shannen Doherty
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Shannen Doherty is not holding back discussing her life struggles from the past few years.

On the first episode of her new podcast, “Let’s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty,” she touched on her battles with cancer and also how she found out her marriage was over right before going in to have a brain tumor removed.

Doherty had been married to Kurt Iswarienko for 11 years at the time.

“I went into that surgery early in the morning and 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 said. “To not go in that surgery, even though, being very clear, he wanted to go, I couldn't go into that surgery with him there. I felt so betrayed.”

“Just to have to go through all of that while trying to figure out if you’re going to get a f****** divorce and trying to get to the truth of that,” she said.

Doherty has been fighting cancer and receiving treatment for the past eight years. She had her brain surgery in January, the same month her and Iswarienko separated. The couple cited “irreconcilable differences,” according to PEOPLE.

The actor kept talking on her podcast about the situation with her husband, saying she was “embarrassed.”

“I am horrified that I can’t keep a relationship together. I think it is a reflection on me, but this one, I think this one is on him,” she said.

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