Amy Robach on Shannen Doherty’s ‘Bravery’ amid Their Most cancers Journeys

Amy Robach is reflecting on how Shannen Doherty modified her life.

Talking on the newest episode of the Amy and T.J. podcast, the previous GMA3 co-anchor, 51, shared her emotional response to Doherty’s loss of life at age 53 on Saturday, July 13, and mentioned the connection the pair had by way of their separate most cancers journeys.

“Shannen Doherty, that one has been arduous for me at this time,” Robach mentioned about Doherty’s loss of life as she recalled the 2020 interview during which the actress mentioned her 2019 analysis of stage 4 metastatic breast most cancers.

Robach herself was recognized with Stage II breast most cancers in October 2013. She then had a double mastectomy and eight rounds of chemotherapy, earlier than a closing spherical of remedy in April 2014

“She had such an affect on me as a result of we have been recognized 2 years aside initially,” Robach continued. “Each most cancers is totally different, however she and I related, and she or he knew she was in a battle for her life. And I simply at all times marveled at her bravery.”

“That was the primary time I obtained to fulfill her. I used to be blown away by her vulnerability and willingness to share her story to assist different individuals get by way of actually robust occasions.”

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Doherty’s longtime publicist Leslie Sloane confirmed her loss of life to PEOPLE on Sunday, July 14. She was first recognized with breast most cancers in 2015 and went into remission two years later in 2017, earlier than the most cancers returned. In 2020 she introduced that she was recognized with metastatic stage 4 most cancers and in June 2023 she revealed the unfold of her most cancers to her mind. 

“Simply to see her bravery in taking it very publicly … It helps so many individuals going by way of that very same battle, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a really unhappy day that she misplaced her battle,” Robach — who discovered about her personal analysis after having a mammogram stay on Good Morning America — added of Doherty.

Throughout her GMA interview in 2020, Doherty spoke candidly about her most cancers journey, saying of her analysis on the time, “I positively have days the place I say, ‘Why me?’ After which I’m going, properly, ‘Why not me? Who else? Who else apart from me deserves this?’ None of us do.”

“It’ll come out in a matter of days or per week that I am stage 4. So my most cancers got here again, and that is why I am right here,” Doherty informed Robach.

“I do not suppose I’ve processed it. It is a bitter tablet to swallow in quite a lot of methods,” she added earlier than stating that she needed her well being journey “to make an affect.”

“I need to be remembered for one thing larger than simply me,” she added within the interview.