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About a year ago Nicollette Sheridan was fired from Desperate Housewives and now she is firing back with a lawsuit. According to
TMZ she filed a $20 million lawsuit against ABC and DH for assault and battery, gender violence and wrongful termination. She alleges in the lawsuit that show creator Marc Cherry physically attacked her after she confronted him about his behavior. In the lawsuit paperwork she claims that on September 24, 2008 “Cherry took her aside and forcefully hit her with his hand across her face and head.” She then says she went to ABC about the incident, and then she added that they didn’t do anything about it. National Enquirer reported this last year, but nothing came of it until now.
TMZ added that Sheridan also claims that Cherry acted in a “extremely abusive and aggressive manner” towards other people on the show. She mentioned one cast member by name in the legal papers, she claims that when Teri Hatcher went to Cherry’s bosses he said, “I hope Teri Hatcher gets hit by a car and dies.” No word from Teri Hatcher about the lawsuit, but I am not expecting her to make one. While Teri might not be talking just yet, ABC released this statement to the
LA Times, “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.”
I wonder why she waited until now to file the lawsuit?
Sadly it is looking like the off-screen drama is more interesting than anything we have seen on the show this season. Desperate Housewives has been going down hill ever since the first season eded and it especially declined when Edie Britt was killed off last year.
