Nicollette Sheridan slams “Desperate Housewives” creator Marc Cherry for her exit from the show

Edie Britt will die on Sunday night episode and Nicollette Sheridan, the actress who plays her, knows who killed poor Edie: “Somebody up there really wanted her dead,”  the actress tells TV Guide magazine. She was referring not to the heavens, but to an even more powerful place—the office of Housewives creator Marc Cherry.

“I think that whoever Edie represented in Marc’s life was somebody he didn’t like,” says Sheridan. “And he had a very difficult time distinguishing between fact and fiction.”

We know Bree (Marcia Cross) was modeled at least partly on Cherry’s mother in that both have a gay son and when that son came out as gay to them, both Bree and Cherry’s mom said: “I’d still love you even if you were a murderer.”

During her five years on Housewives, Sheridan felt she often got short shrift. She was never added to the opening credits with Cross, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and Eva Longoria and over time felt Edie was relegated to the back burner and noticed Cherry rarely spoke of her in interviews. “When you have a jewel,” she asks, “why not polish it and put it out there for all to see?”

Cherry tells the magazine there has been “tremendous pressure” to cut costs and that a major character had to go. “Edie’s already slept with most of the guys on the street and has caused about as many problems as she could.”

No doubt that Sheridan, who came to fame playing Paige Mathison on Knots Landing, will find another show to grace with her lovely presence.