Katherine Heigl cannot escape the drama from “Grey’s Anatomy.”
The actress, 45, shut down the rumor that she turned down an Emmy Award nomination for her function in the ABC series on the June 28 episode of Shannen Doherty’s podcast “Let’s Be Distinct.”
“Well, I didn’t, and all people keeps saying that. I did not convert it down,” mentioned Heigl.
“You know, you have to post your self. You have to submit your perform, and then they deliberate and then they decide if they want to give you a nomination,” she added. “I just didn’t post my do the job that year.”
In 2008, Heigl declined Emmy consideration for her operate as Dr. Izzie Stevens a 12 months just after she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
She mentioned in a statement at the time: “I did not experience that I was provided the substance this time to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to sustain the integrity of the academy business, I withdrew my title from contention. In addition, I did not want to most likely choose absent an possibility from an actress who was offered these types of supplies.”
The actress quit the exhibit two years afterwards.
On the podcast, Heigl acknowledged that she “should have mentioned nothing” about the Emmys controversy.
“I should have stated, ‘Oh, I forgot [to submit my work],’ mainly because it developed such a maelstrom that was so unwanted, and it genuinely was,” she said.
Heigl went on: “I was sort of hoping to make a bit of a snarky point about my content that calendar year, but I was also just not emotion my materials. I did not consider I had anything that warranted even the thought for a nomination. I just was not proud of my work. I would under no circumstances be so daring or so arrogant to convert down a nomination. I would choose that nomination if it came my way. I’d be down.”
“But I just knew there wasn’t something that would definitely warrant just one that year, and I was trying to be honorable, I guess,” she additional. “I was striving to have some integrity. I was not seeking to be a d – – k.”
In addition to the Emmys drama, Heigl was labeled “difficult” and was rumored to be involved in on-established antics in the course of her time on “Grey’s.”
She dealt with how she was produced to be “the terrible person” through her 2023 Variety’s “Actors on Actors” interview with former co-star Ellen Pompeo.
“I was so naive,” she claimed. “I acquired on my soapbox and I had some issues to say, and I felt really passionate about this stuff. I felt genuinely strongly. I felt so strongly that I also bought a megaphone out on my soapbox. There was no section of me that imagined a undesirable response.”
The “27 Dresses” star defined that the results of “Grey’s” gave her “false confidence,” which resulted in her “getting real mouthy.”
“You have been just a tiny early, since they arrived out with this matter wherever every person has their individual megaphone and they get a blue test. It is identified as Twitter,” stated Pompeo, 54. “You were just a minor in advance of your time, lady.”
Heigl reunited with her former co-stars Pompeo, Justin Chambers, James Pickens Jr. and Chandra Wilson at the 2024 Emmy Awards in January.
In advance of the ceremony, Heigl reported on the pink carpet, “In a person way, it feels like I just observed them all, and then in an additional, it’s like oldest existence has passed.”
