Shannen Doherty Recalls Learning of Husband's Alleged Affair Before Surgery

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00:00 I finally had to come to that hard truth

00:04 and file for a divorce, and it was embarrassing.

00:08 Shannon Doherty says she learned

00:10 of her now ex-husband's alleged affair

00:12 right before having brain surgery.

00:15 It was like maybe two or three days apart.

00:18 So yeah, it was pretty brutal.

00:21 I went in after I found out

00:24 that my marriage was essentially over,

00:27 that my husband had been carrying on an affair for two years.

00:32 The Beverly Hills 90210 alum

00:34 getting candid on the debut of her podcast,

00:36 Let's Be Clear, as she navigates her divorce

00:39 from Kurt Izwuryenko after 11 years of marriage

00:43 amid her battle with stage four cancer.

00:46 I couldn't go into that surgery with him there.

00:50 I felt so betrayed.

00:53 At the end of the day, I just felt so incredibly unloved

00:57 by someone that I loved with all my heart.

00:59 I've been thrown a lot of curve balls

01:03 and ones that I never expected in a million years.

01:06 I think for me also doing the podcast right now,

01:09 it seems to be very cathartic.

01:11 I also spoke to the girlfriend of two years

01:16 that he cheated on me with, which is a whole other episode.

01:22 You have to have a sense of humor.

01:24 You have to.

01:25 Without it, it becomes very depressing.

01:29 This year has been extremely tough for me.

01:31 The infidelity claim comes after Shannon revealed in June

01:35 that her stage four breast cancer had spread to her brain.

01:38 He's like, "We're gonna get through this.

01:40 We're gonna get through it as a family."

01:41 That's Shannon praising Kurt for being by her side

01:45 one year after she first shared her diagnosis.

01:48 ETs reached out to Kurt for comment.

01:51 Just going through the journey with her

01:52 and seeing what's around the corner tomorrow.

01:54 If you share 14 years together and you cheated,

01:58 I didn't walk away right away.

02:00 I couldn't.

02:01 I was so confused.

02:04 And I was also on steroids

02:08 and a lot of stuff from brain surgery

02:10 because they didn't want my brains as well.

02:13 Where maybe there was a situation in your past

02:18 where you said, "I can't.

02:20 I'm never gonna forgive and I'm not gonna forget."

02:22 But then while talking about it on the podcast,

02:25 you're like, "Eh, okay, release it now.

02:28 I don't really care as much about it."

02:31 Speaking with ET Wednesday,

02:32 Shannon says her new podcast chronicles the good

02:35 and the bad of her life story.

02:38 Just how personal are you getting in this podcast?

02:41 I get very personal.

02:42 It's basically if somebody wrote a memoir,

02:45 I'm just doing the audio version

02:47 that every week is sort of a new chapter, if you will.

02:49 It's all about the past, the present, the future,

02:52 what happened in my three marriages.

02:56 When it comes specifically to Kurt,

02:58 Shannon says she doesn't feel responsible

03:01 for the marriage crumbling.

03:02 I was, you know,

03:06 I'm horrified that I can't keep a relationship together.

03:09 I think it's like a reflection on me.

03:12 Although I kinda like this one, eh, I don't know.

03:16 I think it's on him.

03:17 How do you even want to love again

03:19 after experiencing such betrayal?

03:21 Well, you know, because I've loved in the past

03:26 and even though it didn't work out,

03:27 it was still really beautiful.

03:29 You know, even with the marriage that is now over,

03:34 there were some great times,

03:37 just because he made poor choices that, you know,

03:41 hurt me greatly, does not mean that every man is like that.

03:47 I believe that there, listen,

03:49 my father was the most loyal, stand-up, honest,

03:53 amazing human being that ever walked this earth.

03:55 I believe that there are still men out there like that.

03:58 There are.

03:59 I just didn't find one this time around.

04:01 (dramatic music)

04:04 (bells chiming)

04:07 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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