Entertainment / Desperate Housewives Edie's Gone From Desperate Housewives Show's creator says she won't be back 'for a few years' By Sam Gale Rosen, Newser Staff Posted May 12, 2008 2:03 PM CDT Copied Marc Cherry, creator of ABC's "Desperate Housewives" suburban drama series, poses for a photo on the set of the show Sept. 24, 2004, in Universal City, Calif. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian) Edie's gone from Desperate Housewives, and the show's creator says she won't be back "for a few years." Nicollette Sheridan's character left abruptly at the end of last night's episode after being confronted and shunned by her neighbors. Show creator Marc Cherry insists that she's really leaving, but he refused to say whether the character would reappear in Lost-style flash-forwards. "I only address one rumor at a time," Cherry says. (More Desperate Housewives stories.) Report an error