Katherine Heigl was on the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN tonight, Feb. 8, 2007, and had these things to say regarding the recent controversy surrounding “Grey’s Anatomy”:
Dave: “And what is the controversy of name calling – one of the characters has called another character a name or said he didn’t call another character a name, and then he had to go to rehab?” (audience laughs) “Now, that’s not part of the show, is it?” (audience laughs)
Katherine: “No, that’s not a storyline, believe it or not.”
Dave: “But it could be.”
Katherine: “It could have been, yeah. In fact, if they’d just held out a little longer, it would have been a great episode arc.”
Dave: “Well, tell us about the whole thing here.”
Katherine: “It was, you know, I think initially it was said in a moment of anger and then it was – I don’t understand what the Golden Globes was about. And now I think at this point we’re trying very hard to just move past it and mend some bridges. And I think, I know for myself, I can’t speak for the whole cast, but I’m certainly hopeful that this will bring about a better, more honest relationship with one another.”
Dave: “And is anybody going to get fired?”
Katherine: “Not that I know of.”
Dave: “Yeah.”
Katherine: “Watch it be me. Wouldn’t that just be awful?” (audience laughs)
Dave: (laughing) “You get fired.”
Katherine: “I didn’t do anything wrong, but suddenly…” (audience laughs)
Dave: (laughing, Katherine laughing) “That doesn’t seem right at all. ‘Yeah, we had to let her go.’” (audience, Katherine laughing)
Katherine: “It made the most sense to ABC.”
Dave: “But is there a lot of tension and friction on the set and a lot of hand wringing and a lot of crying and stuff?”
Katherine: (laughing) “Yes, but that has nothing to do with the controversy.” (audience laughs)
Dave: (laughing) “I see.” (audience laughs)
Katherine: “That mostly has to do with the hours and the storylines.”
Dave: “But, now, whenever people call me names here which happens more than I’d like to admit – “ (audience laughs)
Katherine: (laughing) “Okay.”
Dave: “ – I just have one of my assistants say, ‘Well, you know, Dave doesn’t like to be called names.’” (Katherine laughs) “And then it all clears up. I mean, couldn’t it have been handled like that?”
Katherine: “Well, apparently I was the assistant that said, ‘T.R. doesn’t like to be called names,’ so, um, yeah, I think it would have been nice if it had been handled, but whatever.”