Sarah Drew shares how she was fired from Grey’s Anatomy: ‘It was unfair’

“Today, I have no attachment to the series. None.”

For years, she was one of the most popular surgeons among fans of Grey’s Anatomynotably thanks to her romance with Jackson Avery. And then April Kepner was let go.

Sarah Drew returns today on his departure “without notice” from the medical series, in 2018: “I was unceremoniously fired in a way that seemed mean and unfair. And in the aftermath, there was an outpouring of love, of messages of support. It was so overwhelming that I felt like to attend my own eulogy!”, tell Sarah Drew during the podcast Call It What It Is, hosted by Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington.

The actress has since returned to Grey’s Anatomy twice in 2021 and again in 2022. But she still seems somewhat angry. She thus judges her appearances “liberating in a sense” because “I have no attachment to the series. None. So I had no anxiety going back because I don’t need anything from anyone on that set anymore. They are no longer responsible for my livelihood. They are no longer responsible for my success or my joy. I just think it’s a nice place, I like to pay a quick visit.”

Became a star of romantic TV films on American TV after Grey’s Anatomy, Sarah Drew still knows what she owes to April Kepner and the medical series:

“Before April and Jackson, I was always playing clumsy, annoying, boring, ugly duckling, unattractive characters. I was Will Schuester’s weird stalker on Glee, or the pathetic wife married to a man who don’t like her on Mad Men, or Emily VanCamp’s ugly best friend on Everwood I was ugly until my character started dating Jackson on Grey’s Anatomy And now I’m playing romantic leads. …”