It took a while — but Katherine “Open Mouth, Insert Foot” Heigl has finally apologized for publicly dissing the Grey’s Anatomy writing team. Heigl — who announced her departure from ABC’s award-winning medical drama earlier this week — is sorry for snubbing the Emmy Awards in 2008 and blaming Grey’s writers for her decision not to enter the race.
The star hit the headlines when she told reporters she wouldn’t be defending her Best Actress crown because she didn’t feel that “the material she had been given on the medical drama
warranted a nomination.” The remarks infuriated the show’s writers — and reportedly made for some odd tension on the set of the popular series.
Today, Katherine says she realizes that her comment was “obnoxious” and wishes that she had handled her frustrations in a more mature manner:
“At the time I thought I was doing the right thing and I wanted to be clear that I wasn’t snubbing the Emmys,” the new mom remarks in a new iinterview with Entertainment Weekly. “I was just afraid that if I said, ‘No comment’, it was going to come across like I couldn’t be bothered… I could have more gracefully said that without going into a private work matter. It was between me and the writers. I ambushed them, and it wasn’t very nice or fair. Everybody has bad days. I was a little defensive about my season (on the show) because I thought I hadn’t had a great one.”