HEIGL CONFIRMS GREY’S ANATOMY EXIT
KATHERINE HEIGL has confirmed she’s quit her role on GREY’S ANATOMY - she ’s leaving the TV medical drama to spend more time with her adopted daugh ter.
The actress has been dogged by rumours of a departure from the show eve r since she landed her breakthrough movie role in 2007’s Knocked Up and w ent on to forge a promising film career away from the small screen.
Now after a three-month break from the series, Heigl has announced she won’t be returning, so she can concentrate on raising her daughter Naleig h with her husband Josh Kelley after they adopted her from South Korea la st year (09).
She tells Entertainment Weekly, "I am done. We just finalised our agree ment. Everyone had been working really hard to find an amicable and graci ous way of letting go and moving on. It’s sad but it’s what I wanted. I k now I’m disappointing the fans. I just had to make a choice. I hope I mad e the right one." Heigl last appeared on Grey’s Anatomy in January (10).
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