Jason Priestley Remembers Shannen Doherty Almost One Year After Her Death (Exclusive)
Ian Ziering knows that grief is complicated.
As the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum paid tribute to his former costar Shannen Doherty on the first anniversary of her death, he revealed why he waited to honor her on social media.
“When she died a year ago, I didn’t post anything,” Ian wrote in his July 13 Instagram caption alongside of a photo of him and Shannen at Steel City Con 2024. “And yes, some people criticized that. To them I say: grief isn’t a performance. It’s personal. Let people grieve how they grieve.”
He admitted he struggled being around his castmates over the past year without Shannen, especially as the group continues to mourn Luke Perry, who died of a massive ischemic stroke in 2019. Ian emphasized, “That kind of loss doesn’t fade. It just rearranges the furniture in your heart.”
“I miss Shannen,” he wrote. “We clashed now and then in the early years of 90210—two strong personalities will do that—but we always had respect. I was the wisecracking comic relief; she was the beautiful chaos, the after-hours headline, the girl who could trash a hotel room and make the tabloids love her for it.”