In a 2019 Health magazine interview, Shannen Doherty remembered witnessing the depth of Kurt Iswarienko’s feelings for her when she was undergoing chemotherapy and became extremely sick. “Kurt was crying, saying, ‘Please don’t leave me,'” she recalled. Iswarienko also said all the right things about his then-wife, telling Elle in 2020, “I don’t see a cancer patient when I look at Shannen. I see the same woman I fell in love with.” Doherty had previously praised him for honoring their marriage vows in a 2016 Instagram post — but he ultimately wouldn’t fulfill his “’til death do us part” promise.
After Doherty announced that she was pulling the plug on her marriage in April 2023, her rep, Leslie Sloane, revealed that going through a divorce was not something the “Beverly Hills, 90210” star desired. Sloane also told Page Six, “You can contact Kurt’s agent, Collier Grimm, at PICTUREKID, as she is intimately involved.'”
Doherty elaborated on the cause of the breakdown of her marriage on her “Let’s Be Clear” podcast. She recalled how she was preparing to have a brain tumor removed when she learned something that made her decide that she did not want Iswarienko to join her at the hospital as planned. “My husband had been carrying on an affair for 2 years,” she said. Sources confirmed to TMZ that Iswarienko and the aforementioned Grimm had started seeing each other but insisted that the relationship began after Iswarienko and Doherty quietly separated.
