‘Seinfeld’ Death: Jason Alexander Confesses Reason for Killing Susan Heidi Swedberg To Howard Stern

The death of George’s fiance Susan Ross is without a doubt one of the most memorable moments in Seinfeld history. Over the years, many rumors have been started about why the character was written off the show. One of the rumors being that George actor, Jason Alexander, hated the actress who played Susan, Heidi Swedberg. Recently, Alexander appeared on The Howard Stern Show, where he told The King of All Media, all about the real reason for Susan’s death. Check the report to listen to Soundcloud intervew below to hear what Jason Alexander had to say.

In a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Jason Alexander opened up the poison envelope and revealed just why they decided to kill off Susan on Seinfeld:

"OK, the preamble to this is that it's a wonderful girl , Miss Swedberg. I love her. She's a terrific girl. I love her. I couldn't figure out how to play off of her...Her instincts for doing a scene’’where the comedy was--and mine were always misfiring. She would do something, and I would say, 'OK, I see what she's doing. I'm going to adjust to her.' I would adjust, and it would change... It was such a disaster."

Jason then went on to explain just how he felt when co-creator Larry David gave him the news that he was going to marry Susan:

“I had done three episode with her and Larry calls me up at the begining of the season and says ‘Good news, I got a great arch for you this season, you are getting engaged.’ I said ‘Oh that’s great! Who do I get engaged to, and he said ‘Susan.’ And I went ‘ Great, who’s playing George.’ because it was like such a disaster.”

Jason was unable to persuade the producers to drop the engagement, that is until Jerry Seinfeld and Julia Louis Dreyfus played a scene with her:

"They didn't know how the season was going to end. Was George going to marry her? Was she going to leave him? Finally, there's an episode when Elaine and Jerry have a lot of material with her. We do the week, and than we get to the restaurant, and they said, 'You know what? It's f**king impossible.' Julia said, 'Don't you just want to kill her?' and Larry went, 'Ka-bang.’"

Jason went on to once again stress that he loved and adored Heidi Swedberg and that it was simply a matter of their acting styles clashing.

You can check out the clip in the Soundcloud window below.

The is not the first time the Jason Alexander has told the story either.

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