Katherine Heigl doesn’t regret leaving “Grey’s Anatomy,” but regrets how she left it. Speaking on SiriusXM’s “Beveleations,” the “27 Dresses” actor shared that looking back, she realized she had made her decision without thinking much about the repercussions, as her only priority at the time was to free herself from that environment.
“I look back at it, and sometimes I go, ‘God, I wish I had just calmed down a moment. Taken a breath, thought it through, had some conversations about this possibility. What about this possibility? How about if I do, you know, just this many episodes a season?'” she admitted. “If I could have found a way to work within it, that could have also worked for me. But I only saw it as this one thing: I was up here at a level of intensity that was not healthy for me. And I just, kind of, fled in a panic.”
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In an interview with People, the “Knocked Up” star also opened up about being branded as “difficult,” admitting that some of the rumors were partly her fault. “I know there’s a better way to deal with those things than I did. I could have handled it with more grace,” she said, adding that she wished she had the tools to reconcile her feelings at the time so things could have ended on a good note. “I certainly regret not learning earlier how to manage my anxiety better. Living at that heightened level of anxiety … created a defensiveness in me and wariness and assuming that people were against me,” she continued.
