`Desperate Housewives' creator says end in sight

"But Katherine is an outspoken person and I think we all know that already," Rhimes said.

Asked about coping with candid actors, Rhimes said "the story that's out in the press is generally one side of the story. ... Sometimes that's not everything that's going on and that's not everything that's underneath something."

A reporter then asked: "What don't we know about the Heigl thing that we've misreported or not understood?"

"She was drunk," Marc Cherry chimed in with a laugh.

Cherry also joked about having to share the stage with "Lost" producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, who had earlier received an Emmy nod for best drama series. "Housewives," like "Grey's," was snubbed in the series categories.

"We haven't gotten nominated since year one," Cherry said. "Season two was not a good season for us creatively ... but season three was better, and season four was really good. So for me waking up this morning it was like, `You know what? I had a really good season.' So I've got to kind of go with what I feel in my heart."

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