Nicollette Sheridan Testifies In Desperate Housewives Lawsuit 'I'm Not Accustomed To Being Hit'
March 2 2012, Published 3:00 p.m. ET
By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Legal Editor
Former Desperate Housewives star, Nicollette Sheridan took the stand on Thursday in connection with a wrongful termination and battery lawsuit the actress filed against ABC, and the show's creator, Marc Cherry, and re-enacted for jurors the occasion that Cherry allegedly hit her, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting.
As previously reported, Sheridan, 48, claims in her lawsuit that she was fired from the show after going to executives and alleging that Cherry had hit her -- a charge he vehemently denies.
Sheridan, wearing a black skirt suit, vividly recounted for the jurors, with voice trembling, the day that Marc Cherry allegedly struck her. Sheridan asserted that the incident happened during a rehearsal for a scene and that Cherry slapped her with his right hand on the side of her head. She claimed they got into a heated argument about the script after Sheridan didn't like one of the lines Cherry wrote for her character, Edie Britt.
"I'm not accustomed to being hit," Sheridan said with tears in her eyes. “You hit me in the head! That is not OK. That is not OK," Sheridan claims she told Cherry right after he allegedly struck her.
Cherry allegedly went to Sheridan's trailer after the incident begging for forgiveness. "I'm on bended knee begging for your forgiveness," Sheridan said Marc told her, and told her he would change the script to her specifications. Sheridan did return to the set to film the scene and said she did so because, "I pride myself on being a professional. I wasn't going to let everybody else down."