Pompeo is not the one former Gray’s co-star who refuses to bury the hatchet with Heigl. Isaiah Washington — who starred as Dr. Preston Burke within the present’s first three seasons — reignited his feud with Heigl almost 10 years after he was fired from the collection for utilizing a homosexual slur in opposition to Patrick Dempsey on set.
“This girl as soon as proclaimed that I ought to ‘by no means’ be allowed to talk publicly once more. The world agreed together with her proclamation again then and protested for my job and my head in 65 languages. I want I used to be on Twitter in 2007, as a result of I’ll NEVER cease exercising my free speech,” Washington wrote in a fiery 2020 tweet.
Washington referred to Heigl’s 2007 feedback to Entry Hollywood, by which she mentioned he “wants to only not communicate in public, interval” after the scandal made headlines.