Sarah Drew is reflecting on the time she was let go from Gray’s Anatomy after being on the present for 9 seasons.
Drew performed Dr. April Kepner and exited the ABC drama sequence after Season 14 when her possibility was not picked up alongside Jessica Capshaw.
Throughout an look on the Name It What It Is podcast, co-hosted by Drew’s former co-stars Capshaw and Camilla Luddington, Drew defined how she felt about leaving the present.
“[I] was unceremoniously let go in a manner that felt imply and unjust, and, due to that, the outpouring of affection was so monumental it was such as you have been sitting there watching folks [eulogize you],” Drew mentioned.
Drew gave an interview to Vulture following her exit in 2018, through which she likened getting lower from the present to “attending [my] personal funeral.”
After Deadline broke the information that Drew and Capshaw have been exiting the medical drama, Drew took to social media to deal with her followers.
“I do know you’re unhappy. I’m unhappy too,” Drew wrote on the X, previously referred to as Twitter. “I haven’t actually had the time to course of this info. I’ve been with it for lower than 48 hours, so I’m not able to say my thank yous and provides an all encompassing assertion about my 9 years right here.”
Drew has since returned to Gray’s Anatomy to reprise her position of April and says that coming again was “liberating,” including, “I’ve no attachment to [the show] in any respect,” including, “I had zero anxiousness [going back because] I don’t want something from anybody on that set anymore. They’re not accountable for my livelihood anymore. They’re not accountable for my success or my pleasure… I’m like, ‘Hey! It is a enjoyable spot to come back go to.’”
Throughout the identical interview, Drew revealed that her character was initially purported to have a one-night stand with Eric Dane’s Mark Sloan.
“Earlier than they made my character love Jesus and a virgin, there’s a scene the place Sloan and Reed [Nora Zehetner] have intercourse, a random one-night stand. That was purported to be me initially. It was purported to be April,” Drew recalled. “April was purported to have some random one-off with Sloan and it was within the authentic manufacturing draft [of the script], after which they modified it. I didn’t have something to do with it, however then they modified their thoughts.”
