With 20 years of untamed, emotionally-charged tv to tug from, Gray’s Anatomy has given followers loads of unbelievable moments.
After 20 years, Katherine Heigl not too long ago admitted she will’t watch the ABC medical procedural along with her youngsters, crediting her ghostly intercourse scene with co-star Jeffrey Dean Morgan within the Season 5 episode ‘Within the Midnight Hour’ (2005) as one which makes her “so embarrassed.”
“We now have not watched Gray’s. Partly as a result of I used to be like, ‘How do I clarify that?’” she instructed Leisure Weekly of the scene. “However I’m like, “‘ou can watch it, however I don’t need to sit subsequent to you. I might be so embarrassed.’ I don’t know methods to clarify this. And she’s going to make me embarrassed. She’s going to make enjoyable of me. No, it’s higher to not give her that ammunition. Have you learnt what I’m saying?”
In Season 2 of the Shonda Rhimes sequence, Heigl’s Izzie Stevens falls in love with Denny Duquette (Morgan) whereas treating him for coronary heart failure. Though Denny tragically dies within the sophomore season, he makes a number of returns from past the grave to go to Izzie.
Morgan stated he doesn’t “keep in mind a lot of” his character’s posthumous return in Season 5, as a result of “I don’t know that anyone thought that was working once we had been doing it.”

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Katherine Heigl in ‘Gray’s Anatomy’ (Scott Garfield/ABC/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
Heigl noticed the arc as want success “for Izzie and Denny to lastly principally get to be collectively and have an precise relationship,” however filming “it was awkward — not the scenes, however the idea.”
“She may by no means acknowledge me,” recalled Morgan. “And I keep in mind I used to be yelling at her whereas all people else was giving her physician data. And it was throwing all people off.”
Heigl added, “Yeah. It was complicated for everybody. There’s one explicit scene that I cannot watch with my kids ever. I don’t care how outdated they’re. I don’t care in the event that they’re 60, I’m not watching this with them. And it was a scene the place you’re within the room, however I’m attempting to be like, ‘You aren’t right here, you’re not right here.’ And Alex [Justin Chambers] and Izzie begin messing round and he goes down on her. And also you’re simply standing there. And I used to be simply form of on the time like, ‘That is what the cash’s for, proper?’”
Thursday marked the twentieth anniversary of Gray’s Anatomy, which is at present in its twenty first season on ABC.

