{"id":6239,"date":"2010-03-25T09:02:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T08:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2015-05-06T14:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T12:45:11","slug":"katherine-heigl-confirms-greys-anatomy-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2010\/03\/katherine-heigl-confirms-greys-anatomy-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Heigl confirms &#8216;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8217; departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Heigl confirms in this week\u2019s exclusive Entertainment Weekly cover story that she is leaving &#8220;Grey\u2019s Anatomy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crashdown.com\/images\/news\/2010\/03\/ew-kheigl.jpg\" class=\"picleft\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am done,\u201d declares Heigl. \u201cWe just finalized our agreement. Everyone had been working really hard to find an amicable and gracious way of letting go and moving on. It\u2019s sad but it\u2019s what I wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old actress reveals that it was family issues, not her burgeoning film career, that prompted her to approach series creator Shonda Rhimes and ask to be let out of her contract 18 months early. \u201cI started a family and it changed everything for me,\u201d says Heigl, who took a three-month family leave from Grey\u2019s this season to bond with her newly-adopted daughter, Naleigh. \u201cIt changed my desire to work full-time.\u201d [&#8230;]]<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/ausiellofiles.ew.com\/2010\/03\/24\/katherine-heigl-greys-anatomy-official-ew\/\" target=\"_blank\">Entertainment Weekly.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Heigl confirms in this week\u2019s exclusive Entertainment Weekly cover story that she is leaving &#8220;Grey\u2019s Anatomy&#8221;. \u201cI am done,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2379,3],"tags":[1229,6],"coauthors":[2262],"class_list":["post-6239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katherine-heigl","category-leading","tag-greys-anatomy","tag-katherine-heigl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6239"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27765,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions\/27765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6239"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}