Sharona Fleming
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Sharona Fleming is a fictional character in the award-winning series Monk. She was played by Bitty Schram.
Sharona is a practical nurse from New Jersey, and a single mother of her young son Benjy after a divorce. She found Monk when he was drowning and she saved his life. She moved to San Francisco to be closer to her sister Gail, and ended up being employed by the show's main character, Adrian Monk. The series started a while after she took the job, and just how she got it and what their early relationship was like are never explained (although we are told that it was Captain Leland Stottlemeyer who engaged her as a nurse for Monk). When Monk becomes a consulting detective, Sharona helps out, sometimes doing independent investigations and sometimes even using her sex appeal to get information that Monk cannot. She also does all kinds of things that Monk's OCD and phobias prevent him from doing as she has little such reservations herself. It was revealed in the episode Mr. Monk Goes To the Circus, however, that she has a fear of elephants.
Schram left the show halfway through the third season due to a contract dispute, and it was explained in the show that the character of Sharona had moved back to New Jersey and remarried her ex-husband, Trevor Howe. There was an instant uproar in the show's fanbase, as almost all of them considered the character to be an essential part of the show, and they were also upset at the way she left, saying that it was completely out of character. The controversy has since died down, even though some fans still have not warmed to Sharona's replacement, Natalie Teeger.
| MONK | |
| Current Main Characters | Adrian Monk | Natalie Teeger | Captain Leland Stottlemeyer | Lieutenant Randy Disher |
| Secondary Characters | Charles Kroger | Trudy Monk | Ambrose Monk | Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck | Julie Teeger |
| Tertiary/Quaternary Characters | Jack Monk | Jack Monk, Jr. | Warrick Tennyson |
| Former Characters | Sharona Fleming | Benjy Fleming |
| Related Articles | Episode List | Monk soundtrack | Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse | Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii |
| Official Website | Official site |
