Jennie Garth lifts the lid on Shannen Doherty ‘90210’ feud: ‘Just fending for ourselves’

Jennie Garth said she and nan precocious Shannen Doherty’s infamous feud was caused by them being viciously pitted against 1 different while co-starring connected “Beverly Hills, 90210.”

Garth and Doherty’s characters successful nan iconic ’90s bid — Kelly Taylor and Brenda Walsh, respectively — were rivals connected nan show, which Garth said translated into really group perceived their narration successful existent life.

The character said it was “confusing” for them both, admitting they would sometimes “clash.”

“It brought that much into nan forefront than nan relationship and nan admiration that we innately had for 1 another,” she told People mag in an question and reply published Wednesday.

Garth said that she and Doherty did person things they bonded over, for illustration some of them being Aries zodiac signs.

“She was very intimately connected pinch her parents and her father’s wellness challenges, I excessively was going done nan aforesaid nonstop point astatine nan aforesaid time,” she recalled. “And location were a batch of big things happening for some of us.”

“We were doing nan champion we could, and truthful sometimes beardown women will clash, particularly erstwhile they’re young and benignant of uneducated astir relationship and nan value of it,” she continued.

Looking back, she said nan media and fans’ fixation connected their rivalry put them some successful a “terrible” position.

“Nobody was guiding us,” she noted. “Nobody was getting therapy then, cipher was talking to america astir things, we were some conscionable fending for ourselves.”

“It did scope points of conflict, but astatine nan extremity of nan day, we really did person respect for 1 different arsenic beardown women that lasted a agelong clip successful this industry,” she added.

Garth, 54, said Doherty taught her a batch astir being beardown and opinionated up for herself.

“I’m everlastingly grateful for her and for nan narration that we had, moreover though astatine times it was complicated,” she acknowledged. “It was still really good.”

Doherty died on July 13, 2024, astatine nan property of 53 aft a lengthy conflict pinch cancer.

Back successful March 2024, Doherty recalled a heated conflict pinch Garth complete a prank she pulled connected her erstwhile chap “Beverly Hills, 90210” alum Brian Austin Green appeared connected nan “Charmed” alum’s podcast, “Let’s Be Clear.”

“Oh, my God, she mislaid it connected maine and I was conscionable not successful nan temper to backmost down,” Doherty said of Garth.

Green recalled that he and their co-star Ian Ziering had to physically intervene, adding location was ever onset hostility betwixt nan group of female formed members — besides including actresses Tori Spelling and Gabrielle Carteris — which he explained arsenic “not an easy business to watch.”