Breaking up is hard to do.
Enter: Shannen Doherty, who knows a thing or two about endings and now wants to help you break up with your boyfriend, fire a lousy employee or kick your lazy roommate out the door. On national TV.
“Breaking Up With Shannen Doherty,” which she hosts and executive produces, premieres Aug. 22 on Oxygen. The “Beverly Hills, 90210” star helps those in need of ending relationships by creating fictitious circumstances to get the two people in a room together so she can watch their behavior–and then step in herself.
“I’ve certainly been through a couple of relationships, as we all know, and some marriages,” she half-joked last week to TV reporters and critics at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel & Spa in Pasadena, Calif.
Doherty, who became as infamous as she was famous when she starred on “90210” for her diva and bad-girl ways, became emotional when she was asked if her goal of helping people had anything to do with cleaning up her image.
“I’m not going to lie to you; it hurts a lot to read the stuff I read about myself, and it hurts me, and it hurts my mom a lot,” said Doherty, who choked back tears as she looked at her mother. Doherty acknowledged she had only herself to blame for much of what had been written about her, but she later asked reporters to give her another chance.
“Stop writing about stuff that happened 10 years ago. Stop bringing up every bad thing in my life,” she said. “… If I mess up again, then write about it. But just let me breathe, and let my parents breathe. Let them pick up the paper and it says one nice thing about me.”
