Shannon Doherty is suing her business manager because of her breast cancer, she announced in a Los Angeles court Wednesday.
The 44-year-old actress was diagnosed with “invasive” breast cancer in March, but because the company who previously managed her finances didn’t pay an insurance premium, she wasn’t able to go to the doctor, causing it to spread.
“She says the firm ignored an invoice for payment of the premium in 2014. The insurance was cancelled and apparently she couldn’t re-enroll until 2015. Shannen says during the lapse period she didn’t regularly visit doctors, which had been her practice.”
“In March 2015, after getting her insurance back, she went to a doctor and discovered she had “invasive breast cancer metastatic to at least one lymph node.”
Doherty argues that if she had been able to visit a doctor her cancer could have been stopped.