Shutterstock/ABC The details keep coming. Isaiah Washington was fired from Grey’s Anatomy in 2007 after allegedly using a homophobic slur on set, and now, the writers are sharing exactly what happened — and how Patrick Dempsey was involved. “It was my episode. I think one of them had been late to set one day and,
The details keep coming. Isaiah Washington was fired from Grey’s Anatomy in 2007 after allegedly using a homophobic slur on set, and now, the writers are sharing exactly what happened — and how Patrick Dempsey was involved.
“It was my episode. I think one of them had been late to set one day and the other one then decided to pay him back by being late himself. Then it sort of exploded,” writer Mark Wilding recalled in Lynette Rice’s book, How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy. “They got into an arguing match, and then before you know it they were physically fighting. I was standing there in video village. I’m, like, six feet four inches. I’m bigger than both of them. But I didn’t really jump in right away because I’m like, I don’t know if I want to get involved.”
