By now, most Gray’s Anatomy followers have heard of the bodily altercation between Patrick Dempsey (Derek Shepherd) and Isaiah Washington (Preston Burke) on the present. On the time, each males have been lead actors on the present however the battle, and the issues that Washington stated through the altercation, finally led to him being written off of Gray’s Anatomy. Now, a brand new ebook has gone into element about that ill-fated incident.
What led to the battle on the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ set?
The battle that finally led to the top of Washington’s time on the present was allegedly began due to tardiness.
“I think one of them had been late to set one day and the other one then decided to pay him back by being late himself,” author Mark Wilding recollects within the new ebook Methods to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Gray’s Anatomy, in line with HollywoodLife. “Then it sort of exploded. They got into an arguing match, and then before you know it they were physically fighting. I was standing there in video village. I’m, like, six feet four inches. I’m bigger than both of them. But I didn’t really jump in right away because I’m like, I don’t know if I want to get involved.”
Isaiah’s slur
The incident escalated when Washington used a homophobic slur.
“And Isaiah, for whatever reason that day, just took that the wrong way and he went after Patrick,” Harry Werksman, one other author, stated. “I guess he felt disrespected that he and the crew had been waiting. He went after Patrick, pushed him up against the wall, and said, ‘You can’t talk to me the way you talk to that little f***** T.R.’”
Although T.R. Knight, who performed George O’ Malley, had not publicly come out but, everybody on set knew that he was homosexual. Following the incident, Knight was nearly pressured to come back out. He formally came out to Individuals.
“I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I’d like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there,” he stated on the time. “While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I’m gay isn’t the most interesting part of me.”
Isaiah tells his facet of the story after leaving ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
This isn’t the primary time the incident has been mentioned. In 2007, Washington gave his facet of the story on Larry King Live
“We’re waiting on Ellen [Pompeo] for off-camera. And I said, ‘Well, why are we waiting on Ellen? I don’t need to wait on Ellen. We just have one line that he’ll say to you and then you can go on your way,’” he recalled. “Then he says, ‘Well, I need Ellen.’ And I stated, ‘Well, I don’t want Ellen. I can act. He turned unhinged, face-to-face, spittle to spittle, in my face. I didn’t begin it.
“I pushed him out of my face and it just took off from there,” he continued. “I began to say a lot of things that I’m not really proud of, but all referring to myself and how I felt I was being treated. I said, ‘There’s no way you’re going to treat me like a B-word or a P-word or the F-word. You can’t treat me this way in front of our crew.’”
Knight stayed on the present for an additional few years however in the end left in 2009 after a breakdown in communication with present creator Shonda Rhimes.