Shannen Doherty on Trash Duty

October 4, 2001 -- Small-screen diva Shannen Doherty will be working off a drunken driving charge by picking up trash from the side of the road.The star, who left her last two series, Charmed and Beverly Hills 90210, under a cloud, was arrested on Dec. 28 for driving under the influence. Tests revealed Doherty had a blood-alcohol level of 0.13 percent, well above the state's legal limit of 0.08 percent, according to The Associated Press

Tuesday, a California judge imposed the minimum sentence for the 30-year-old actress, who had already worked off part of her debt to society by lecturing teens about the dangers of drinking and driving. Instead of spending two days in jail, she'll now serve five days in a work-release program as part of her sentencing. "Thank God, I did not injure anybody," Doherty told teens at a Thousand Oaks, Calif., teen center, according to People magazine. "There hasn't been a day gone by that I haven't wanted to relive that decision to get in my car."

Doherty said that on the night in question, she was upset from "boyfriend problems and everything else," and that she drank "two or three margaritas" with friends before driving home on the Ventura Freeway and being pulled over at 3 a.m. for weaving.

She was arrested and spent the next 10 hours in jail, the magazine reported in its Sept. 17 issue. "It's probably one of the most humiliating, degrading experiences you can ever go through," said Doherty, who pleaded no contest in April. "It's affected my career; it's affected the way I look at myself."

The trouble-prone actress has gone the court-ordered community service route before, after a 1996 incident in which she smashed a bottle on a man's car in Beverly Hills, Calif. The actress was put on probation and ordered to undergo anger-management counseling.