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<blockquote data-quote="Richard Denault" data-source="post: 320826" data-attributes="member: 23030">Susan Sullivan did not leave the program, she was fired in a bad way, she found out reading the scriptIn Tell it one of the wonderful newsletters of the German&nbsp; <a href="http://www.falconcrest.org/english" target="_blank">http://www.falconcrest.org/english</a> club tellsHernry Stern was home, talking to Susan Sullivan one day about going to dinner or something, and she said ‘Oh, the messengers just delivered the script.’ And so she starts skimming through it while Henry is on the phone with her, and she says ‘Oh my God, they’re killing me! My ring gets caught in the swimming pool.’ ” This, again, confirmed what I had heard from other sources close to the set: The official version about Susan’s “leaving” was merely played to the press — Susan did not want to leave the series, but was forced to. “And she discovered it while she was on the phone with Henry! We were then long off the show doing something else,”Chao-Li told us she was not happy when she found out her character, Maggie, was killed off. This confirmed what we had heard from various sources in the last few years: It was not the actress who decided to be written off, but the new producers of season 9 forced her to leave. Lorimar’s official 1989 fall press release only pretended it was Susan’s decision to quit&nbsp; —&nbsp; a version all the cast and crew was forced to tell the media in&nbsp; those&nbsp; days&nbsp; for&nbsp; publicity rea- sons. Another source — unnamed, but very close to the set —&nbsp; also mentioned Susan was furious, indeed. She is said to have had a screaming match with co- executive producer Joel Surnow when she found out the script of the season première killed her character off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Richard Denault, post: 320826, member: 23030"] Susan Sullivan did not leave the program, she was fired in a bad way, she found out reading the script In Tell it one of the wonderful newsletters of the German [URL]http://www.falconcrest.org/english[/URL] club tells Hernry Stern was home, talking to Susan Sullivan one day about going to dinner or something, and she said ‘Oh, the messengers just delivered the script.’ And so she starts skimming through it while Henry is on the phone with her, and she says ‘Oh my God, they’re killing me! My ring gets caught in the swimming pool.’ ” This, again, confirmed what I had heard from other sources close to the set: The official version about Susan’s “leaving” was merely played to the press — Susan did not want to leave the series, but was forced to. “And she discovered it while she was on the phone with Henry! We were then long off the show doing something else,” Chao-Li told us she was not happy when she found out her character, Maggie, was killed off. This confirmed what we had heard from various sources in the last few years: It was not the actress who decided to be written off, but the new producers of season 9 forced her to leave. Lorimar’s official 1989 fall press release only pretended it was Susan’s decision to quit — a version all the cast and crew was forced to tell the media in those days for publicity rea- sons. Another source — unnamed, but very close to the set — also mentioned Susan was furious, indeed. She is said to have had a screaming match with co- executive producer Joel Surnow when she found out the script of the season première killed her character off. [/QUOTE]

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