In real life, Doherty is doing the same thing by opening up about her health.
In 2015, Doherty was diagnosed with breast cancer; prompt medical treatment sent the cancer into remission.
I don’t really talk about it.
It’s part of life at this point."
Yet she has an important reason to speak out about it now.
Doherty plays the adoptive mother of the daughter.
The actress says she finds her work “even more fulfilling” than it was before her diagnosis.
“It’s assumed that they cannot work or they can’t work at their full capacity.
And that is not true.
At the time of her cancer recurrence, Doherty was working on the rebooted version of “90210.”
We still have some living to do.”
I wake up feeling blessed that I’m here.
That I’m thriving."
