Tori Spelling, Jennie Garth Wish Shannen Doherty Stayed On ‘90210’

Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth — Image Credit: JA/Everett Collection

Could issues have been totally different for Beverly Hills, 90210? Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling hashed that out on a current episode of their 90210MG podcast. When they have been requested if issues may have been dealt with otherwise to maintain Shannen Doherty from exiting the beloved drama in 1994 amid rumors of drama on set, Tori responded that maybe a “break” may need modified issues. “I wish that Brenda [Walsh, Shannen’s character] would have stayed on the show, definitely, but I don’t know where they were gonna go with her character,” Jennie stated on the podcast, by way of PEOPLE.

“If I’m going to answer as a fan, which is how we go into the show right now, rewatching. Yes, I would have liked it worked out so Brenda could have stayed,” Tori added. “Being in it and on the outside of what was going on at the time, there probably needed to be a break because there was just — the energy you know, she wasn’t happy.”

Tori additionally claimed that “a lot of people” have been sad with how issues have been occurring the TV set on the time. “I think it affected everyone and therefore the energy became toxic on set,” Tori recalled. “I’m not saying she made it toxic, just from everything going on. So it did need a break. But yes, if we had taken a breather, and everyone had calmed down and sorted out. It would have been really nice to have Brenda come back.”

Shannen Doherty, Tori Spelling, Jennie Garth — Everett Collection

Shannen, who’s now battling breast most cancers, famously stepped away from the present in 1994, with Tiffani Thiessen stepping in to fill the hole as Valerie Malone. Though rumors swirled Shannen had been fired from the long-lasting teen cleaning soap, Shannen herself was on the file on the time claiming she give up.

“I quit,” she informed TV Guide on the time, calling it a “mutual decision” between her and legendary showrunner Aaron Spelling. “We backed each other against the wall,” she stated. “I feel no sadness. Who wants to get up at 5 a.m. and leave the arms of your husband and go work for 12 hours in a job in which you’re miserable?” At the time, Shannen was married to Ashley Hamilton.