Shannen Doherty Wanted to Move to Italy Before Her Death After 'Bucket List' Trip with Her Doctor

“That was her dream life," Doherty's friend and 'Charmed' costar Holly Marie Combs revealed on the 'House of Halliwell' podcast

Shannen Doherty dreamed of moving to Italy before she died, according to one of her longtime friends.

Holly Marie Combs, Doherty’s Charmed costar, joined fellow cast members Brian Krause and Drew Fuller on their House of Halliwell podcast on Monday, July 22, for a special episode in honor of Doherty.

“I don’t think anyone loved Charmed more than she did, and that’s a fact,” Combs said of Doherty, who died on July 13 at age 53 after fighting stage 4 breast cancer.  “And it’s also a fact that she’s probably laughing at all of us right now being super sad.”

“I mean, there’s a degree of sadness that she does want,” Combs continued. “She wants a proper amount of mourning and crying. But there’s also some parts of it, like, Drew raced back from Italy and she’s definitely laughing at him panicking and getting on a plane for her.”

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Combs went on to share that the late actress aspired to live in Italy.

“That was her goal,” She explained. “That was her dream life.  Her next trip was going to be to Italy and she was considering moving to Italy.”

Fuller replied, “I called one of [Doherty’s] best friends and I told her, ‘I’m getting on a plane from Italy right now.’ She goes, ‘You idiot. Shannen’s laughing at you right now. Why are you doing that?.’”

The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum previously opened up about checking a trip to the European country off her bucket list.

On the Jan. 1 episode of her Let’s Be Clear with Shannen Doherty podcast, she reflected on having "such a good time" traveling with her friend and oncologist, Dr. Lawrence Piro.

"You invited me on this amazing yacht with your family and I got to go to Italy with you, which was like bucket list," Doherty told Piro. "By the way, you knew it was on my bucket list. I mean you called me and you said, 'It's kind of bucket list, Shannen.' I was so excited."

While reminiscing about the "amazing trip," Piro praised Doherty's adventurous spirit.

"And she was just, I mean she's incredible, jumping off of every level of the yacht. Even the highest. Shannen is fearless, she truly is," he said.

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Doherty also recalled injuring herself on the yacht’s stairs while trying to avoid being stung by jellyfish.

"That's the amazing thing, you jump off the highest point of this enormous yacht and you go to climb back on," she added. "I got scared of the jellyfish, so I went the long way and the dangerous way and that's when I gave myself that big bump on my leg."

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Doherty received her breast cancer diagnosis in 2015 and went into remission in 2017. The cancer returned in 2019, and the actress announced in 2020 that she’d been diagnosed with metastatic stage 4 cancer.

She considered Piro both a trusted adviser during her journey with the disease and a close friend.

“We both immediately got each other,” Piro, the President and CEO of Cedars-Sinai affiliate The Angeles Clinic and Research Institute in Los Angeles, told PEOPLE last week. “Sometimes that just happens. The vibe is right and you understand each other and you understand what the thoughts mean as if you had known each other for years before that meeting. That's what it was like for us when we first met, and it was that way all the way until the very last.”

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