Shannen Doherty and Katherine Heigl commiserated on their history of speaking out in Hollywood and how it affected their careers.
While on Doherty’s podcast “Let’s Be Clear,” Heigl — famous for “Grey’s Anatomy” before switching to movies — recalled how she first spoke out about bigotry on the ABC series to applause. However, it was when she started standing up for herself that she felt negativity coming her way.
“When I stood for myself, it wasn’t quite taken quite the same way,” she said Friday. “So then it stopped being easy to do that, to speak my truth. Then I just shut the hell up as much as I could for a long time, and I pretty much just ran away.