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Ellen Pompeo Says ‘Ballsy’ Katherine Heigl Was ‘100% Right’ About Grey’s Anatomy

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It has only taken our culture over a decade to reckon with the truth: We absolutely did Katherine Heigl dirty.

Scrubbing back into some mid-aughts “Grey’s Anatomy” drama, Ellen Pompeo has come to her former co-star’s defence more than a decade after she controversially exited the long-running medical drama.

Heigl was branded as a villain for clashing with the powers behind the ABC series after publicly criticising the harsh working conditions on set and later withdrawing her name from Emmy contention over lacklustre material.

But Pompeo is now praising Heigl for making “ballsy” comments at the time.

“I remember Heigl said something on a talk show about the insane hours we were working, but she was 100% right — and had she said that today she’d be a complete hero, but she was ahead of her time,” she said in an episode of her “Tell Me” podcast.

“Of course, let’s slam a woman and call her ungrateful when the truth is she’s 100% honest, and it’s absolutely correct what she said,” Pompeo continued. “And she was fucking ballsy for saying it. And she was telling the truth. She wasn’t lying. Also, when you’re younger, you’re so excited to be there and you’re so happy to be invited to the party that you’re willing to do whatever it is they’re asking you to do.”

Heigl indeed faced backlash over a 2009 appearance on “The Late Show With David Letterman,” where she described her “17-hour” workday as “cruel and mean.”

Heigl addressed those comments while endorsing the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees strike in a lengthy Instagram post in September, remarking that she got her “ass kicked for speaking up.”

Pompeo, who now also serves as one of the executive producers on “Grey’s Anatomy,” explained that the culture has thankfully evolved since Heigl’s days, adding that “happier actors” mean there’s “not as much drama.”

“I’m very lucky now with my schedule on ‘Grey’s,’” she said. “I get to cut back, and overall I’m happy for the production as a whole because we have cut back tremendously. Back in the day, we used to do crazy, crazy hours.”

While Heigl has since starred in a slew of projects, including Netflix’s “Firefly Lane,” she has spoken about how being labeled “difficult” took a serious toll on both her career and mental health.

“I may have said a couple of things you didn’t like, but then that escalated to, ‘She’s ungrateful,’ then that escalated to, ‘She’s difficult,’ and that escalated to, ‘She’s unprofessional,’” she told The Washington Post in an interview last year. “What is your definition of difficult? Somebody with an opinion that you don’t like? Now, I’m 42, and that shit pisses me off.”

Heigl said that she was “quickly told to shut the fuck up” amid the fallout from her comments.

“I asked my mom and my husband to find me somewhere to go that could help me because I felt like I would rather be dead,” she told the Post. “I didn’t realize how much anxiety I was living with until I got so bad that I had to really seek help. You can do a lot of inner soul work, but I’m a big fan of Zoloft.”

Heigl previously expressed interest in returning to the series and wrapping up her character’s arc, but creator Shonda Rhimes has said she’s unequivocally “done with that story.”

“I’ve turned that idea over in my mind a thousand times and thought about how it would go,” Rhimes told TVLine back in 2013. “And I don’t think so.”

“Grey’s Anatomy,” currently standing as the longest running medical drama in television history, was renewed for a 19th season in January. Apart from Pompeo, Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr. are the show’s only remaining original cast members.

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Hugh Grant Would Be Really Pleased If We All Forgot About This 1 Movie

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Hugh Grant wouldn’t mind if a certain film suddenly got dropped from his filmography.

The “Love Actually” star revealed during an appearance on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” that he would “happily shred my IMDb page” because he “specialised in being bad for decades, really.”

“As you know as someone in the industry, [it’s] one thing for me to say I was bad, but I can’t bring down the rest of the wonderful colleagues who work with me on any film by saying it was bad,” Grant said, before naming the film he’d like make disappear.

“The Lady and the Highwayman,” Grant finally said, as Corden and fellow actor Chris Pine laughed about the title of the 1988 film.

“Mid-’80s, made for television film,” Grant explained. “I’m a highwayman. I’m meant to be sexy.”

“Low-budget, bad wig, bad hat,” he added, just as the show pulled up a look at Grant in the film:

Hugh Grant and Lysette Anthony pictured in "The Lady and the Highwayman."
Hugh Grant and Lysette Anthony pictured in “The Lady and the Highwayman.”

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While Grant attempted to take pains to not insult any of his previous colleagues, he did make a rather frank admission about his former co-star, Drew Barrymore, just two weeks ago. The two starred in the 2007 romantic comedy “Music and Lyrics” together.

“Drew Barrymore was in that film with me, and I don’t think she’d mind me saying her singing is just horrendous,” he said, laughing, during an interview with Wired. “I’ve heard dogs bark better than she sings.”

Despite his blunt confession, Grant told Barrymore on her talk show in 2021 that the movie the two made is “impossible to hate.”

“I love to hate the films I’ve been in, and I do hate some of them,” Grant said. But ‘Music and Lyrics,’ it’s impossible to hate. We’re so good in it, and so charming.”

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