Sheridan's ex calls her "troubled"

Desperate Housewives actress Nicolette Sheridan has been branded "a very troubled woman" by her ex-fiancé.

Sheridan, who plays Edie Britt on the hit US show, was engaged to Niklas Soderblom in 2004. In his new book Desperate Houseman, Niklas has lifted the lid on their stormy relationship and claimed that Nicolette's new romance with Michael Bolton will not last.

"There were things about Nicolette's behaviour that struck me as very strange from the start, but I let them go. I was in love with her and I thought I was Superman, that I could save her from herself," he explained. "But the truth is she is a very troubled woman who could not be more different from Edie.

"Edie is a funny, flirty, sexy man-eater. Nicolette flirts and can be funny, but that's just to catch you. She likes the excitement and the challenge of landing a new man but it never lasts. She is just a lost, angry little girl who has never grown up.

"She didn't blame her problems on herself. She blamed them on me and she thought the way to deal with that was to move on to a new man. I feel very sorry for her because ultimately she is going to end up totally alone. She was very moody and people in the business warned me, 'She will break your heart.'"