Thank you, for posting this. It definitely answered a lot of questions, even though I already knew a lot of them based off of deductive reasoning. I went through this podcast, in order to get Time-Stamps, along with a little bit of a transcript-ish, for those interested.
46m20s - 46m22sInterviewer: Do you still talk to her?
Holly: I do. I still talk to her, occasionally.
50m21s - 51m11sBoth Holly & the Interviewer discussing/revealing details about Shannen's condition.
53m58s - 54m04sInterviewer: So, when she left, what did that do, to the dynamic?
Holly: It was a surprise to both of us.
54m08s - 54m13sHolly: Shannen had asked out of her contract, December, the year before.
54m14s - 54m16sInterviewer: Did you know, she was not happy?
Holly: Yeah.
54m17s - 54m19sHolly: In the beginning, we all bonded, very well.
54m28s - 54m31sHolly: The Network wasn't giving us our day, in court.
55m22s - 55m57sHolly: We kind of already felt like we were already this step child/black sheep of the family, for some reason. We didn't know why, so we bonded over those first two years. We were struggling through changing producers, changing writers, the Network fighting our producers, them fighting for more money, but we had special effects, we had stunts, but we had this. It just became a grind and a factory, in the last year and the third year and the girls started to just go at it, and it was really difficult, and they really started to disagree on different things.
56m20s - 56m30sHolly: It was a shock, when she had asked out, in December, they had told her, of that year, they had told her "no, you're under contract, you're not going, anywhere. Get over it", basically.
56m39s - 56m55sHolly: They had actually hired a corporate mediator to work out our issues between the three of us. Like a corporate mediator that was like...they sent this person to like IBM, when the executives don't get along.
58m30s - 58m54sHolly: At the end of that season, Shannen called me, in the middle of hiatus and was like "yep, I just got the phone call". But, it was the phone call she was waiting for, back in December, so it's kind of like "really"..."now"? I guess it was more financially feasible for them to let her go at the end of the season, then it was at the middle of the season. Like, it was very calculated and not handled well, whatsoever.
59m00s - 59m34sHolly: At the time, I took it very personally. I was really pissed I wasn't involved in this decision making process because the show I signed onto to do was with Shannen. So, I went into the office and said "this is not the show I signed up to do, anymore. So, I should be able to go, too." Right? I should be able to be "let go", too! And they said in no uncertain terms that if I was to try to leave, I would be sued.
Interviewer: Because you were under contract.
Holly: Mhmm.
1hr03m19s - 1hr03m47sInterviewer: She's (regarding Rose) coming into a family that's already, you know, an existed family, with its own problems, as every family has, its ups and downs, was that an easy adjustment, do you think, for you? Or, was that hard?
Holly: Oh no, it was super hard. With Shannen leaving, it was emotional...
Interviewer: (interjects) 'Cause you were friends.
Holly: ...for me and emotional for her just because of the unexpected way it was done. She directed her last episode.
Interviewer: I did not know that!
Holly: She, literally, directed her own death.
1hr03m53s - 1hr04m06sHolly: So, to carry on from that was really difficult, for me. That's when, later on, I struck a deal with Spelling to become a producer because that's not gonna happen, to me, again.
