Katherine Heigl regrets handling of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ comments about writers

Given that this is the “Grey’s Anatomy” story that will never die, why not spent another few moments talking about Katherine Heigl and what she famously said about the show’s writers many years ago when she declined to submit herself for Emmy consideration? This moment became something that stuck with her the most of her career, and you could argue it was the beginning of the end for her on the show.

Now, the actress is at least admitting that while she still didn’t think that her material for that year was equal to what she’d had in the past, she still wishes that she had handled it a little more tastefully. Specifically, here is what she told Howard Stern in a new interview:

“I wasn’t feeling good about my work that season, no …. And what you have to do as an actor if you want to get nominated is you have to submit your work … and that year I said, ‘I’m not going to submit; I can’t find anything I feel good about.’

“There was a part of me that thought, because I had won the year before, that I needed juicy, dramatic, emotional material, and I just didn’t have that that season … I think there were 12 series regulars on that show, and everybody deserved their juicy, dramatic, emotional season. I’m not a writer, but I imagine it must be very difficult to do that for everybody.”

Heigl also said that she was “embarrassed” by what happened and later apologized to creator Shonda Rhimes. She has said that she would be happy to revisit the Izzie character at some point down the road, but so far there has not been much of an inclination that the show is ready to welcome her back.

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