Shannen Doherty Is Staying Out of the Water & Away From the Sharks

According to Details magazine, Shannen Doherty is afriad to go back into the ocean after a run-in with a few sharks.

The former 90210 star went cage diving off the coast of Hawaii two years ago and freaked when the sharks showed up.

“I couldn’t breathe, I started having an anxiety attack, I couldn’t stay out of their reach,” Doherty says, shuddering. Her Irish brow crinkles into slight worry lines that make her look her age, which is 37. “They were slamming into the cage—they looked so frickin’ mean! My leg slipped a little through the bars, and a shark swam up against me and rubbed off a layer of my skin.”

She still owns nine or ten surfboards but hasn’t been in the ocean since the shark encounter. “I tell myself the least I can do is give the ocean back to the sharks,” Doherty says. And then she giggles. “No, that’s just a bullshit rationalization—I’m just terrified now.”

I’m totally with ya, Brenda.