Shannen Doherty has bravely shared her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment with fans via Instagram. Her raw honestly has shone through via photos and interviews, most recently during an appearance on Chelsea Handler's Netflix show, "Chelsea."
Doherty and Handler are friends, so the interview - which airs tonight on the streaming service - promises to be emotional, if the preview is any indication.
Doherty talked about the March 2015 diagnosis and how battling cancer has changed her in ways she wasn't prepared for.
"I think what’s beautiful and hard and interesting about cancer is that it tears you down and builds you, and tears you down and builds you,” Doherty explained.
“It remakes you so many different times. The person I thought I was supposed to be or was going to be or who I thought I was six months ago is now somebody completely different. I realize, ‘Wow, I really thought that I was so brave and so gracious this entire time and really I was just hiding.’”
As Doherty spoke, tears began to well up in Handler's eyes, which her friend was quick to point out. Handler lost her own mother to breast cancer in 2006.
"Don't cry, don't cry," Doherty said to the comedienne, who tipped her head back in order to stop the tears.
Doherty started to choke up when she spoke about how the disease was affecting her loved ones, particularly her husband, Kurt Iswarienko.
"This was very hard and not humbling — because I’ve already been humbled by cancer,” Doherty then continues. “It was hard in the sense of rethinking sort of who you are and how you come to terms with who are now and accepting it and looking at your husband and thinking like, ‘Dude, I’m so sorry.’”
Now we're crying.