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It's no secret that Housewives is largely based on creator Marc Cherry's life, but he has revealed that more recent stories have come from his past.

"I can't believe I'm telling you this. My sister, at the age of 13, faked a suicide attempt," Cherry told The New Zealand Herald, thus revealing the inspiration for Danielle Van De Kamp's faked attempt to kill herself. And Tom's current story is also inspired from his life, revealing that his father ""totally stunned and appalled my mother" by opening a pizza restaurant, and that it eventually broke up their marriage. He added that he "probably won't have that break up Tom and Lynette's marriage" though, not wanting to go through it again.

With so much being based upon his life, Cherry blamed his inability to trust his writers as adding to the problems of the below-par season two. But with season three he says that's change. "I'm trusting my writers more," he said. "I was very protective the first season ... Bree is based on my mother, so I literally wouldn't let anyone else write Bree. This year, we got Joe Keenan. He comes from an upper-middle-class, repressed Wasp family like I do, and I find him perfectly capable of writing Bree very well."

Cherry said his mother still supports him, even if he is basing his shown on much of her life too. "Her attitude is, 'Whatever secrets you need to reveal to make yourself successful, you go ahead and do it.' She knows that ultimately the more successful I am, the better gifts she receives."

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