In the most recent episode of Charmed rewatch podcast The House of Halliwell, Holly Marie Combs recollects the help she obtained from co-stars Shannen Doherty and Alyssa Milano throughout an extremely troublesome time.
While discussing “The Power of Two,” an episode from Season 1 that initially aired in May 1999, Combs shares the extraordinarily private story behind her character’s noticeable absence for many of the hour.
“They had found a rather large tumor in my uterus during this season, and it kept growing at a rate that was not healthy,” the actress, who performed center witch sister Piper, says. “They were afraid that it was cancer, so we needed to have it removed.” As Combs later recollects, “Alyssa would stare at me through the car window and say, ‘It’s not cancer. It’s not cancer.’” Fortunately, she was proper.
Production shut down for 2 weeks whereas Combs recovered from surgical procedure, throughout which period her TV sisters had been by no means greater than an orb away.
“We got very close, all of us, during this time,” she says. “Shannen would leave my hospital room, and Alyssa and her mom would come in. When I went home, Alyssa’s mom had made me chicken soup and food for the week because it was a really major surgery. The girls really pulled together during this time for me.”
According to Combs, her tumor was “the size of a baseball” after being eliminated. One element she will be able to’t bear in mind, nevertheless, is why Milano selected to call the tumor Jonathan.
Combs finally returned to movie Piper’s scenes for the episode, most of which concerned her sitting as a result of “walking was not fun at that point.”
If you’re questioning why you’ve by no means heard this story earlier than, Combs explains, (*1*)
New episodes of The House of Halliwell — hosted by Combs, Brian Krause (aka Leo) and Drew Fuller (Chris) — drop each Wednesday on Apple Music and Spotify.
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