British actress Nicollette Sheridan, Edie Britt of ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” filed lawsuit against Marc Cherry, creator-producer of the said show for the alleged assault and wrongful termination. In the Superior Court in Los Angeles, lawsuit filed last Monday. Sheridan claims that the show’s producer hit her in the face in the Wisteria Lane set in September 2008. Based on the case filed, Sheridan asked Cherry about a line in the script, and he “took her aside and forcefully hit her with his hand across her face and head,” the suit said. After she stormed off to her trailer, he came to “beg forgiveness.” Sheridan’s allegations said that Cherry retaliated by killing off her character in the popular series after she reported the incident to the management of ABC. The lawsuit filed seeks $20 million in sustained damages. This also includes ABC, accuses Cherry of creating a hostile work environment on the set and behaving aggressively and abusively toward the cast and the writers. ABC Studios said in a statement Tuesday, “While we have yet to see the actual complaint, we investigated similar claims made by Ms. Sheridan last year and found them to be without merit.” A call to Cherry’s company, Cherry Alley Productions, wasn’t immediately returned Monday night. When Teri Hatcher, who plays Susan Meyer on the show, spoke to ABC executives about Cherry’s behavior, Cherry told Sheridan, “I hope Teri Hatcher gets hit by a car and dies.” Sheridan argued that her character was one of the lead characters of the show, and was getting more airtime that season. Edie Britt is not featured in the show’s opening credits. “It is exceptionally unusual for a popular character to be killed off or written out of a television series unless the actor has requested to be released from his or her contract,” is how Sheridan’s lawyer sees it. Nicollette Sheridan of Desperate Housewives Seeks $20M Lawsuit Against Show Producer Marc Cherry is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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Nicollette Sheridan of Desperate Housewives Seeks $20M Lawsuit Against Show Producer Marc Cherry
