Shelley at her LA home in 1980
Shelley became a household name in 1979 when she joined the cast of Charlie's Angels. She went through all the things all the Angels before her went through, superstardom and constant media attention. She told People magazine in 1980, "I feel like I've been sunbathing on Three Mile Island." The very private star was under constant scrutiny by the press, viewers and critics alike. "I was totally unprepared for the press "bonanza" that followed," she said in 2000 about the announcement of her Angel-dom. "I had press people crawling in my windows," Shelley told E! in 2002. As another Charlie's Angel (Farrah Fawcett) put it, it was like being in the eye of a televised storm.
