In new court documents, Shannen Doherty revealed additional details about her terminal cancer diagnosis amidst her divorce from Kurt Iswarienko. The “Charmed” star, who was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 and then diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in 2019 which had metastasized to her bones and her brain, said she's undergone a host of treatments, in a June 21, 2024 statement given to the court. The last of her treatments, she says her doctors told her was no longer effective in 2023.
Just before a brain surgery in 2023, she knew she wanted divorce Iswarienko, she stated. "On January 15, 2023, the day before my brain surgery, I told Kurt in no uncertain terms that I did not want him present at my surgery and that I would be filing for divorce," Doherty said. "I filed the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage on April 24, 2023, when I had sufficiently recovered from my surgery.
" Now, Doherty said she's living off of her residuals from her past acting roles and using those funds to subpoena the court for Iswarienko's financial information. Iswarienko, on the other hand, is a photographer who Doherty says has worked with Netflix, FX, Hulu, Amazon and NBC among others. He also does editorial work for magazines and celebrities.
"As a result of Kurt’s failure to produce any information regarding his work as a photographer, I have been forced to subpoena these entities directly at enormous expense," Doherty stated. She believes Iswarienko is stalling, waiting for .
