Holly Marie Combs is getting personal.
During part two of iHeartRadio’s Let’s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty podcast, Combs opened up about her relationship with her Charmed costars Alyssa Milano and Brian Krause.
After host Shannen Doherty addressed her own feud with Milano, 50, during the first part of their conversation, Combs, 50, said she never had an interest in doing the show without Doherty, 52, who left at the end of season three.
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“You know, Brian and she were dating at the time when this all went down, which, to me, us being completely oblivious, to me was the worst part. Where, it was all sort of part of this plan that was happening and unfolding through over months. It was months of that year,” said Combs. “You were dating Julian [McMahon, who played half-demon Cole Turner]. So you guys were off in that world. Brian was off with Alyssa.”
Combs said she eventually reunited with Krause, 54, at a panel and received an apology.
“He just recently — it was about a year ago — in France, we were on stage at a panel that was filled with many, many people, and he just kind of paused,” she explained.
“He looked at me like he forgot something, and I kind of looked at him like, ‘What? What’s the problem? Why are you looking at me like that?’” continued Combs. “And he just looked at me while someone was asking a question and just went, ‘I’m so sorry.’”
“And I was like, ‘Sorry for what?’ I was like, ‘Are you going somewhere? What’s happening?’ He just shook his head, and he goes, ‘I’m so sorry.’ Because we had talked a little about it on stage without talking about it. Because still no one was allowed to talk about it.”
Combs said that he continued to be apologetic after getting offstage. “And we got off stage, and he just looked at me and said, ‘I’m so sorry. That must have been a terrible time for you,’” she added.
“I mean, it took him like 24 years, but better late than never,” responded Doherty, to which Combs added, “Better late than never.”
Charmed ran from 1998 to 2006 and chronicled the story of the three Halliwell sisters: Prue (Doherty), Piper (Combs), and Phoebe (Milano). Rose McGowan later joined as Paige Matthews, a long-lost half-sister, after Doherty’s departure.
Krause portrayed Leo Wyatt, the sisters’ guardian angel, for the duration of the series’ run on The WB.
On last week’s episode of Let’s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty, Doherty discussed the “competitiveness” she felt with Milano and how it affected their friendship with Combs.
During the WB show’s first season, Combs dealt with a growing uterine tumor that caused the series to stop filming for two weeks while she underwent surgery. Doherty said she tried to visit Combs in the hospital post-surgery, but was met with resistance.
“I waited 24 hours after your surgery to go, and then it wasn’t even easy for me to get in. I was like, being told I couldn’t even get in by Alyssa and her mom,” she recalled in last week’s episode. “They were blocking people from seeing you, and at the time, you didn’t know.”
The actress went on to explain her frustration after Combs reached out, asking her whether she planned on coming by.
“I remembered you texted me and were like, ‘Dude, are you going to come and see me?’ And I can feel like your pain of feeling like I’d abandoned you.” she continued. “But I also felt my anger at the situation of not being allowed to come see you, and how sort of family had swooped in and caused this sort of weird divide between the two of us that then continued throughout season 2 where I think I cried every single night of season 2.”
iHeartRadio’s Let’s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty airs weekly and can be streamed wherever you get your podcasts.
