“I’m completely heartbroken over the passing of Shannen Doherty.” the Newsroom alum wrote on her Instagram Tales July 14. “Once I was first recognized with breast most cancers I remembered how she bravely let the world into her journey and reached out to her. We turned instantaneous friends- which I truthfully couldn’t comprehend at occasions as a result of watching her on 90210 was every thing to me once I was 10.”

“We bonded by means of a shared battle and a want to assist different girls,” she continued. “Wanting again on the final textual content she despatched me only a couple months in the past, she requested how I used to be doing and if she may do something for me… true to kind, Shannen was providing her help though she was within the closing stage of preventing this horrific illness.”

Olivia concluded her assertion with a heartfelt message to her late good friend. “Most cancers is basically f–king scary and Shannen confronted it with such dignity, power and style,” she expressed. “I’m sending all of my like to her mom who was her finest good friend, hero and champion each step of the way in which. Fly so excessive, my good friend.”