Teri Hatcher has hit out at the producers of Desperate Housewives for axing her onscreen daughter from the show.
The actress was devastated when she discovered Andrea Bowen would not be a part of the regular cast for the next season of the hit show.
In the finale, which aired on Sunday, the cast was transported five years into the future – and Bowen’s character Julie was revealed to be a student at Princeton University.
As a result, the character will be absent from the next season of the show – and Hatcher thinks that is a mistake.
She tells USA Today, “She (Bowen) is somebody who I have done the majority of my work with for four years. I’ve watched her grow up from 13 to 18, get a driver’s license. I can’t begin to tell you the depths of how impossibly hard it is for me to think about her not being there. This is a totally producer/network decision that I have nothing to do with, and I guess I can go out on a limb and say I don’t support.”
It wasn’t easy for Teri Hatcher to get up on stage and perform Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats” on Wednesday night’s Idol Gives Back special.
“Singing on Idol Gives Back … now that was nerve-wracking!” Hatcher told Usmagazine.com after taping her performance Sunday.
Her Desperate Housewives costar James Denton played the guitar.
“She’s brilliant,” he raved to Us. “She did Cabaret on Broadway — people forget that she’s a great singer!”
Hatcher said Denton had a hand in picking the song.
“Jamie texted me and said, ‘I just heard this song, and I think it would be great for you,’” she told Us.
“And not 10 minutes earlier, my daughter and I had heard it on the radio, and she said to me, ‘You’d be really good at this song!’” Hatcher added. “So I told Jamie, ‘It was really weird that my daughter said the same thing, so I guess that’s what we should sing.’”
After her performance, Underwood came out on stage and congratulated her.
Said Hatcher, “She was very sweet. I didn’t put her on the spot or anything!”
Teri Hatcher says that she finds the European paparazzi frightening, after her friend was threatened by snappers in France.
She was visiting Paris to celebrate Eva Longoria Parker’s wedding last July when she was surrounded by a swarm of photographers taking pictures of the wedding guests. She said that they went too far and turned on her friend who had asked them politely to stop. This prompted them to cuss him out and threaten his life.
She says, “I had a kind of scary time when I was in France for Eva’s wedding. I was out with a French friend and my daughter Emerson, and we were kind of swarmed by papas. My friend said to them, nicely, ‘Would you please stop now? She’s with her daughter. This is too much.’ They swore at him in French and told him the would punch him in the face and kill him. That’s not so great but that’s not the norm.”
