but in 2020, dougherty revealing her stage iv breast cancer. >> you want to own your cancer story?her people hear from it me. >> reporter: now she's opening up again about her story, determined to break the stigma and write a new narrative for people living and thriving with stage iv cancer. >> i'm living life. i'm spending a lot of time with friends and family and working. work is -- it fulfills that creative side of me, and i definitely need that. i need to be fulfilled creatively. >> your birth mother is standing in your house? when were you going to tell us that you found her? >> reporter: dougherty is bringing her talents to two lifetime movies debuting this month, "list of a lifetime" and "dying to belong." >> my job as an actor is to entertain. and for people to have moments to escape. especially now. especially the world that we're living in. to be able to turn something on and sort of leave all of your problems behind, that's what i enjoy doing the most. >> does work feel different for you at this stage in your career? >> i think work was always very fulfilling to me. but

patrick dougherty takes his family to ride every season. his wife even works there. it's going to affect the jobs if we don't have a season and there's not going to be employment slopes thriving an open last spring things turned in the last few months, according to the resort. the cal door fire damaged countless trees on their mountain. and now they're forced to navigate repairs to their chairlifts seen in our coverage of the damaging wildfire. unfortunately this is year two of us just getting our butts kicked all the way around up at tahoe for decades. stephen brunt woman like many is worried. i don't know. i think some of these places that are closing their doors may not have the opportunity to reopen. i'm depending on how badly they're going to get hit. pg any using the closed resort as a staging area for repairs. pg and e. telling casey are a they've removed 25,000 fire damaged hazardous trees with an estimated 80,000 more to go. i just. don't know what it's going to look like anymore, or what it's going to be like going through the same runs that i've been doing

patrick dougherty takes his family to ride every season. his wife even works there. it's going to affect the jobs if we don't have a season and there's not going to be employment slopes thriving an open last spring things turned in the last few months, according to the resort. the cal door fire damaged countless trees on their mountain. and now they're forced to navigate repairs to their chairlifts seen in our coverage of the damaging wildfire. unfortunately this is year two of us just getting our butts kicked all the way around up at tahoe for decades. stephen brunt woman like many is worried. i don't know. i think some of these places that are closing their doors may not have the opportunity to reopen. i'm depending on how badly they're going to get hit. pg and e using the closed resort as a staging area for repairs. pg and e. telling casey are a they've removed 25,000 fire damaged hazardous trees with an estimated 80,000 more to go. i just. don't know what it's going to look like anymore, or what it's going to be like going through the same runs that i've been doi

. >> reporter: patrick dougherty and his family enjoy the resort every ski season.e the slopes at sierra thrived just last spring, a dramatically different picture after the caldor fire damaged countless trees on their mountain and chairlifts. >> some of the lifts were damaged. um, many of the trees were damaged. and um, they have to go through and make sure that any of the trees that were affected by the fire are safe. >> reporter: pg&e is using the closed resort as a staging area for repairs. so far, the company says crews have removed 25,000 fire-damaged hazardous trees. with an estimated 80,000 more to go. but despite the challenges, south lake tahoe mayor tamara wallace says sections of sierra at tahoe should be open this season. >> they are planning on opening as much of the mountain this year as they can. um, we do have several other resorts here on the basin. they will all be open. they were not affected. >> reporter: now, many in the region are concerned about the impact on jobs. >> it's going to affect the jobs. if we don't have a season, then >> i think s

patrick dougherty takes his family to ride every season. his wife even works there.on't have a season and there's not going to be an employment slopes thriving and open last spring, things turned in the last few months according to the resort. the cal door fire damaged countless trees on their mountain. and now they're forced to navigate repairs to their chairlifts seen in our coverage of the damaging wildfire. unfortunately this is year two of us just getting our butts kicked all the way around up at tahoe for decades, stephen bruns hman like many is worried. i don't know. i think some of these places that are closing their doors may not have the opportunity to reopen. i'm depending on how badly they're going to get hit. pg any using the closed resort as a staging area for repairs. pg and e. telling casey are a they've removed 25,000 fire damaged hazardous trees with an estimated 80,000 more to go. i just. don't know what it's going to look like anymore, or what it's going to be like going through the same runs that i've been doing for years, the season forecast fro