shannen Doherty saves fan

[prueturner61]

Shannen Doherty

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Shannen Doherty recently called 911 to help save a Twitter follower who was sending messages about wanting to commit suicide.

The former Beverly Hills 90210 star, 41, who was in California, was so concerned by the message from a distraught fan who'd aggressively Tweeted at her before, that she called police in Westhampton, N. J., and asked them for help. TMZ.com, which first reported the story, released the 911 call on Sunday.

"This is going to sound incredibly strange," she told a police dispatcher on the call. "My name is Shannen Doherty and I'm an actress. I am on Twitter, sadly, and there is a girl that is threatening to shoot herself and she lives somewhere over there. I'm completely untrained to deal with somebody threatening to commit suicide, especially via Twitter."

Still, Doherty was smart enough to put the police on the right trail, and even coaxed an address out of the woman.

As Doherty stayed on the line – "I'm sitting here, like, you know, freaking out and held hostage and I can't even do anything," she says on the tape – police found the woman, who was okay.

But not before the dispatcher let Doherty know he was a fan.

"All my co-workers can't believe who I'm on the phone with," the dispatcher told to an appreciative-sounding Doherty. "They all want your Twitter account."

[Chrisaholic]

Oh wow!! Respect Shannen!!

[thepowerofnicki]

This must have been so scary for Shannen!

[prueturner61]

i'll look around & see if I can find one.

[prueturner61]

Thanx

[cyma]

This sort of reminds me of the episode where Prue saved Maggie from leaping off the building in Murphy's Luck Good thing everything turned out okay.

[SARI-SINISTER!]

This is pretty common these days. Whether people actually do anything is rare, but fans typically do it to receive attention. That's a lot of suicide related things these days. Celebrities are quite helpful when they listen. There are so many problems in the world, and it's times like this that you can see the good in even the meanest celebrities. Shannen isn't horrid of course, but I'm just referring to the general Hollywood lighting. Whether the woman was serious or not, you can't tell over tweets. Thanks to Shannen, if anything was serious she prevented it from occurring. <3

[forbuss]

I have never understood why fans do this! Just doesn't make sense to me.

[SARI-SINISTER!]

There are many reasons. Sometimes people have mental disorders, some want attention from a chosen celebrity, some have obsession problems. Sometimes, people just want to get noticed. It also could occur from already happening events. Bullying, pain, family problems, need for control...etc