Bad Behavior That Got Actors Killed Off TV Shows

It's becoming more and more routine for hit television series to kill of its central stars,
either for shock value or simply to keep viewers guessing.
In the case of some small screen characters, it's the real-life actors who portray them
who've been responsible for their grisly ends.
Whether it's been bad behavior, co-star feuds, or simply creative differences, these stars
saw their on-screen alter egos bite the big one because of their behind-the-scenes behaviors.
Shannen Doherty
Since her Beverly Hills, 90210 days, Shannen Doherty hasn't exactly had a reputation for
being easy to work with.
After being fired from 90210 for alleged drama with castmates and crew members, Doherty also
had tension with her Charmed co-star, Alyssa Milano.
Their rumored feud likely led to Doherty's character, Prue, being killed off the show.
"We were on the air with her for three years, and there were definitely some rough days."
"so It was very much sort of like high school."
Charlie Sheen
Back when Charlie Sheen had tiger blood in his veins, he also had a whole lot of rage
towards Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre.
Sheen lashed out at Lorre, calling his boss a "maggot" and allegedly making anti-semitic
remarks about him.
"Fill the plates with fools and clowns and nabobs."
Shortly after Sheen's insults hit headlines, Lorre ceased production on the eighth season
of the series.
In the Season 9 premiere, Lorre had Sheen's character, Charlie Harper, hit by a train.
"His body just exploded like a balloon full of meat."
He was replaced by Ashton Kutcher, which gave the actor plenty of room to shoot off his
so-called torpedo of truth elsewhere.
And then Lorre killed him again in the series finale, just for fun.
"It's called Charlie Sheen!"
"Carlos Estevez!"
T.R. Knight
Hell hath no fury like a scorned Shonda Rhimes.
Actor Isaiah Washington was fired from Grey's Anatomy in 2007 after he allegedly called
castmate T.R.
Knight a gay slur during a heated on-set argument.
And Katherine Heigl got written out because of her diva antics about the show's Emmy contention.
But that wasn't the end of it.
Knight essentially accused Rhimes of writing him off the show too, in part, because she
didn't want him to come out publicly—Rhimes denies that was the reason.
Before Knight's character, Dr. George O'Malley, was killed off the show, the actor said he'd
all but disappeared from the storyline anyway.
In fact, during the first nine episodes of Season 5, O'Malley was on screen a total of
only 48 minutes.
He told Entertainment Weekly,
"My five-year experience proved to me that I could not trust any answer that was given."
Instead of putting up a fight, Knight said he asked to leave the show, saying,
"There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision."
007's death was definitely a grim one after that.
Mischa Barton
When The O.C. first debuted to the small screen teen scene, Mischa Barton's turn as Marissa
Cooper made her an overnight A-lister.
But it didn't take long for her character to be killed off in a car crash in the third
season, and it was the actress' attitude that led to the demise.
Even her on-screen dad, Tate Donovan, had had enough of her diva behaviors on set.
"Definitely Mischa.
She was pretty… yeah."
Barton herself later told People Magazine of her notorious partying, "Almost overnight
it was like this switch had been turned on.
We thought, 'Work hard, play hard.'
It was a train I could not get off of … I was living a jet-set lifestyle.
There were a lot of enablers around, people to fly you around and to make it all possible."
Columbus Short
Scandal ousted a couple of its first season stars, for varying reasons, but Columbus Short's
character death ensured he'd never be welcomed back for a cameo reprisal like some of the
others.
Why?
Well, problems in his personal life cost him his role as Harrison Wright on the hit ABC
drama.
In February 2014, Short was arrested for allegedly physically attacking his then-wife in front
of their children, then again two weeks later when he allegedly shoved her during an argument.
Less than a month later in March 2014, he was accused of breaking a man's nose and leaving
him unconscious during a bar fight.
Short's wife filed for divorce and obtained a restraining order against the actor in April
2014 after he allegedly held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her and himself.
That was the death knell of his time on the show, for sure.
Jay Thomas
You might remember Jay Thomas as hockey star Eddie LeBec on Cheers, and if so, you might
also remember that the character was killed off in a bizarre Zamboni accident -- which
was unusual for such a feel-good bar series.
"What's the excuse?"
"He's dead."
"Ha!
That old one."
His character was the onscreen husband of Rhea Perlman's beloved character, Carla Tortelli,
and Thomas was also a morning DJ at the time for a Los Angeles radio station.
Thomas reportedly fielded a caller's question on the air about what it was like working
on Cheers, and instead of simply being polite and professional and telling him it was an
amazing opportunity and a great job, Thomas complained about having to kiss Perlman … and
she heard the whole thing.
After that, he was done away with from the show, and unlike a lot of his former co-stars,
not everybody still knows his name.
Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros
More than a few Lost stars disappeared because of their bad behavior.
Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros, who respectively starred as Ana Lucia and Libby
on the series, were both arrested for DUI on the same night in December 2005.
Rodriguez pleaded guilty and served five days in jail and paid a $500 fine.
Watros who also pleaded guilty, faced a 90-day suspension of her driver's license, 14 hours
of rehabilitation, and $307 in fines.
Following their arrests, both Libby and Ana Lucia were killed off in the same episode.
Rodriguez and the writers both claimed her death was the plan all along, but it still
looks and sounds really fishy.
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