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Desperate Housewives star Nicolette Sherdian has revealed that she used to have to hide her British accent when she moved to America as a child.
Sheridan, 41, said that she used to get teased by her natural accent in her American school, according to Contactmusic.com.
She said: "I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me. You had the little English accent, you get up and read out loud in class and everybody was laughing and they used to call me 'Little English Muffin'. So I had a fabulous, intelligent retort. It was, 'Oh yeah? You American Cheese!'
"I had to practice a lot to get this American accent. I used to come home from school in tears from being called this English muffin and I'd go, 'I can't speak English anymore...' It was very difficult."
However, it seems that she can't please everybody all of the time. She added: "I go home they're like, 'Oh, you bloody Yank!' And here (in the US) they're like, 'What are you? Are you from New York?'"
Sheridan, 41, said that she used to get teased by her natural accent in her American school, according to Contactmusic.com.
She said: "I came over when I was 10 years old, which was very difficult because everybody made fun of me. You had the little English accent, you get up and read out loud in class and everybody was laughing and they used to call me 'Little English Muffin'. So I had a fabulous, intelligent retort. It was, 'Oh yeah? You American Cheese!'
"I had to practice a lot to get this American accent. I used to come home from school in tears from being called this English muffin and I'd go, 'I can't speak English anymore...' It was very difficult."
However, it seems that she can't please everybody all of the time. She added: "I go home they're like, 'Oh, you bloody Yank!' And here (in the US) they're like, 'What are you? Are you from New York?'"
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