11 TV Characters Punished By Death For Their Actor’s Behaviour

6. Edie Britt - Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives was a show full of melodrama and fights, and that was often true of the show off-screen as much as it was on it.

Real estate agent Edie Britt was very much a fan-favourite for her five years on the show, and Nicollette Sheridan even being nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance, but the drama behind-the-scenes caused the need for an early exit.

Her death came when she crashed her car, where unbeknownst to her a power line had snapped and there was water underneath her vehicle, meaning when she stepped out she was electrocuted and killed on the spot. The reason was that Sheridan was reportedly quite difficult to work with, but more specifically clashed with creator Marc Cherry, culminating in the actress filing a $20m lawsuit against him in 2010 for assault, wrongful termination, gender violence, discrimination, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Cherry claimed that it was only a light tap on the head, an all of Sheridan's claims were eventually dismissed in court.