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Actress Shannen Doherty, who is battling stage four cancer, sorting out her possessions, make things easier for her mom, Rosa, when she dies.
Speaking on her podcast, Let’s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty, she said, "My priority at the moment is my mom - I know it's going to be hard on her if I pass away before her.
"I want other things to be a lot easier. I don't want her to have a bunch of stuff to deal with. I don't want her to have four storage units filled with furniture.”
She added that while it’s never going to be easy for the people in her life to let go, regardless of her preparations, leaving her loved ones with fewer things to worry about puts her “more at ease”.
The Charmed actress loves antiques and antique furniture, but she hasn't been using many of the items, she said.
"I’m not enjoying it and others aren't enjoying it. And do I really need any of it? Do I need to have three dining room tables?
"The answer is no, none of us really need all the stuff that we have, and we could all do with a little bit of downsizing and not become a hoarder, which I was doing with all my furniture."
Shannen was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2015 and had a mastectomy. In 2019, after two years in remission, the cancer returned and had spread to her brain. More surgery followed to remove it. .
In 2020 she was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer, which has since spread to her bones.
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In the same podcast Shannen said she would be using the money from the sale of her antiques to travel with her mom.
“I don't need this [stuff], it doesn’t really bring me any great joy, but what does bring me great joy is taking my mom to the places that she's always wanted to go. I get to build different memories — I get to build memories with the people I love and not dig into the money that's in my estate, that is going to make sure everybody in my life is taken care of.”
Recalling a trip to Italy with with her mom, she said, “[My mom] had tears pouring down her face because she never really thought that she would see that and she certainly didn't think that she was going to be able to see that with me.”
“Those are the things that matter the most. Not your possessions, not what you have.”
SOURCES: USATODAY.COM, DAILYMAIL.CO.UK, PEOPLE.COM, INSTAGRAM.COM
