Shannen Doherty has accused SAG-AFTRA of terminating her union health insurance amid her battle with stage four metastatic breast cancer.
The organization’s website reveals: ‘You must earn $26,470 in your base earning period to receive earned eligibility for Active Plan health coverage.’
In a scathing new Instagram post, Shannen, 51, took aim at both SAG-AFTRA in general and its president Fran Drescher, who is a cancer survivor herself and has described herself as an ‘anti-capitalist’.
Shannen, tagging Fran, wrote: ‘I’m curious for people like me who have worked since they were 10 and paid dues to @sagaftra how when we are unable to work for health reasons why our union leaves us .’
Shannon, who rose to international fame in Beverly Hills, 90210, added: ‘I think we can do better for all of our members and I think you’re the person to do that.’
DailyMail.com has reached out to SAG-AFTRA and representatives for Fran Drescher for comment.
She argued: ‘Health insurance should not be based on annual income. It is a lifetime contribution. And for me and many others, we have paid lifetime dues only to be canceled because we don’t meet your current criteria. Not OK.’
The message was accompanied by a selfie of Shannen wearing a stern expression while connected to an IV drip.
Fran was elected president of SAG-AFTRA in 2021 after telling Deadline that she wanted to improve the “dysfunctional division in this union.”
Since her 1990s heyday on The Nanny, she has championed a variety of causes, including early detection of cancer.
She herself suffered from uterine cancer in the 2000s, but was able to beat her disease into remission, where it has remained ever since.
After her recovery, she published a memoir called Cancer Schmancer and then founded a nonprofit organization of the same name.
The Cancer Schmancer Movement was launched with the aim of ensuring that as many women as possible could have their cancers detected at stage one.
Shannen was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015 and has openly let her fans in on the grueling experience of the treatment.
After undergoing a single mastectomy, she underwent radiation and chemotherapy, and finally in 2017, the cancer went into remission.
Writing that the development was ‘good news’, she reminded her audience: ‘The next five years are crucial. Repetitions happen all the time.’
She announced in February 2020 that the cancer was back and – in ‘a bitter pill to swallow in many ways’ – had advanced to stage four.
“I don’t think I’ve processed it,” Shannen admitted on Good Morning America. “I definitely have days where I’m like, ‘Why me?’
The Charmed star shared: ‘And then I go, “Well, why not me? Who else? Who else besides me deserves this?” None of us do.’
Shannen, who is married to photographer Kurt Iswarienko, said her ‘first reaction is always worry about how – how am I going to tell my mum, my husband’.