Sarah Michelle Gellar is marking a bittersweet birthday this yr.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum shared a tribute to her leisurely pal Shannen Doherty on the Charmed alum's 54th birthday April 12. It marks the first since her 2024 death and comes two days earlier than Sarah will flip Forty eight.

“For as prolonged as I can have in mind, we possess now smartly-known our birthdays collectively @theshando,” Sarah wrote on Instagram, alongside a pic of the actresses at their 2024 celebration. “This yr I will take care of that custom, and possess an ultimate time you. I am so chuffed we were all collectively on for the time being final yr, no longer knowing it would perhaps be the final luxuriate in this. Gratified Birthday Shannen.”

The Dexter: Initiating Sin actress also shared a never-earlier than-seen video of the two blowing out the candles on their birthday muffins at the occasion.

Three months after the event, Shannen died after combating cancer for years.

The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum became as soon as first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, went into remission two years later and printed in 2020 that it had returned.

Also that yr, her bond with Sarah grew as the Scooby Doo actress and her household joined hers in a “Covid pod” at some stage in the pandemic.

“You gave my children such a existence in Covid,” Sarah—who shares daughter Charlotte, 15, and son Rocky, 12, with husband Freddie Prinze Jr.—acknowledged on Shannen's podcast Let's Be Determined, released five months earlier than her death, “and I became as soon as if truth be told combating give them that freedom and that room to be young of us and to possess adventures.”

Sarah continued, “You opened your personal house to us in Covid in a technique that I will for the leisure of my existence be overjoyed about.”

Shannen notorious that Sarah and her household helped her at some stage in that time as smartly by correct being there. “It's exhausting being remoted, particularly as any individual who's immunocompromised,” she acknowledged, “and likewise you were all so incredibly cautious about who you were spherical and all of that in present an explanation for to in actuality near here and dangle out and wander swimming and lift out wine challenges.”

Sarah had shared a touching tribute to Shannen following her July 2024 death on social media.

“How lift out you presumably bring collectively the apt words to sum up 30 years of friendship?” the actress wrote alongside several photos of the pair on Instagram. “I take care of reminding myself it entirely hurts this vital on account of, there became as soon as so vital luxuriate in. Thank you, for all of your model words and enhance. I luxuriate in the total messages about how @theshando became as soon as crucial to you. So let's honor her.”

Gellar notorious that her pal loved animals and namely dogs and impressed fans to enhance native charities in her memory.

“Whether or no longer that’s donating cash, stopping by your native shelter and correct offering cuddles and walks to animals housed there or even correct tagging them in the comments so diverse of us can be taught their work,” she continued. “I know that can possess our girl chuffed (and illicit [sic] that deep throaty chuckle we all loved).”

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