When it comes to her funeral, Shannen Doherty has a list of people she doesn't want to attend, and for good reason at that. On her Let's Be Clear With Shannen Doherty podcast, she opened up to her best friend and executor of her will, Chris Cortazzo, about planning her own funeral and curating the guest list.
The 52-year-old actress shared that she doesn't want her funeral to be very sad, but more like a house party. "I'm horrible at funerals," she admitted. "I don't know if anybody is actually good at funerals, but I am the girl who like, literally sobs. I can't handle it."
"There's a lot of people that I think would show up that I don't want there," she continued. "I don't want them there because their reasons for showing up aren't necessarily the best reasons. Like, they don't really like me and, you know, they have their reasons and good for them, but they don't actually really like me enough to show up to my funeral."
"But they will, because it's the politically correct thing to do and they don't want to look bad, so I kinda want to take the pressure off them and I want my funeral to be like a love fest," she added. "I don't want people to be crying or people to privately be like, 'Thank God that [expletive] is dead now.'"
More from LittleThings: Shannen Doherty Admits She Was Scared When She Found Out Her Breast Cancer Was In Remission
The funeral talk comes amid Shannen's battle with stage 4 cancer. Her initial breast cancer diagnosis came in 2015. In April 2017 she shared that she had gone into remission but by 2019 the cancer returned and in 2020 she announced her diagnosis of metastatic stage 4 cancer.
In 2023, she revealed that the cancer had spread to her brain and bones. But in an interview with People, she said she wasn't determined to allow that to get her down. "I’m not done with living," she told the publication. "I’m not done with loving. I’m not done with creating. I’m not done with hopefully changing things for the better. I’m just not — I’m not done."
When asked by Chris for a list of those who should be invited to her funeral, she replied, "That's the shorter, that's the better list. I can't give you a list of who I don't want because that's way too long."
Though she didn't name any specific names, Shannen made it clear that she knows exactly who she has in mind. "I'm talking about people who just really don't like me. I just don't want those people there and I know who they are."
"I abhor fakeness," she added. "I can't stand people who want to all of the sudden pretend that they found Jesus and they're so sorry and they repent and they didn't mean anything bad that they said about you, blah, blah, blah. I can't stand that."
"I'm like, 'No, no, no. I know you're still the exact same petty human being. Don't. Just stay away from me. We're good. I don't need to say something bad about you, you don't need to say something bad about me, but we can just ignore each other.'"
