Ellen Pompeo (Getty Images)"Grey's Anatomy" has had countless nail-biting moments in its 10 seasons, but some of the biggest dramas took place behind the scenes.
"Hurt feelings, combined with instant success and huge paychecks started things spinning out of control," Ellen Pompeo, who plays the show's title character Meredith Grey, told theNew York Post. "The crazier things got, as I watched all the tumult with Isaiah and then the Katie thing, I started to focus on the work."
The 43-year-old actress was of course referring to former co-stars Isaiah Washington and Katherine Heigl in the unfiltered interview promoting the show's 200th episode. Both of their departures from the ABC medical drama made big headlines.
Elaborating on Heigl's 2010 departure, which stemmed from a contract dispute during which the blonde, who played Izzie Stevens, was vocal about her unhappiness on the show (which put her on the map and won her an Emmy), Pompeo called the situation "tough."
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"You could understand why she wanted to go — when you're offered $12 million a movie and you're only 26," said Pompeo. "But Katie's problem is that she should not have renewed her contract. She re-upped, took a big raise, and then tried to get off the show."
