Sharona Fleming

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Sharona Fleming is a fictional character in the award-winning series Monk. Sharona is a divorced practical nurse from New Jersey and a single mother with a young son named Benjy. She was played by Bitty Schram.

She found Monk when he was in a catatonic state and got him out of it. Monk said that she found him when he was drowning and 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 are never explained (although it is revealed that Captain Leland Stottlemeyer 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 few 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 her character 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. 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.

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• Sharona is notorious for dating dishonest men, most of whom are eventually exposed by Adrian Monk.

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
Former Characters	Sharona Fleming | Benjy Fleming
Related Articles	Episode List | Monk soundtrack | Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse | Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii | Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu
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