Shonda Rhimes Reveals the Off-Screen Moment She Thought Would 'Kill' ABC's 'Grey's Anatomy'

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Shonda Rhimes is looking back at her wildly successful series Grey’s Anatomy, which is now on season 21 on ABC.

However, there is a moment that she thought would “kill” the entire show, and it happened way back in 2007. Keep reading to find out more… THR asked if she had a “rose” and “thorn” for her time with the medical drama, and she elaborated on the thorn moment. “I think the thorn was having the bubble of joy burst so early on Grey’s [with the Isaiah Washington incident] and not having anybody interested in helping us deal with it, because that really shaped a lot of how we looked at the world going forward — and a lot of how [creative partner Betsy Beers] and I processed working with other people going forward.

I mean, that was the thing we thought was going to kill the show. And it’s funny, every Grey’s actor I talk to who was there during that time is still traumatized by that incident.

People still talk about it. So, that was the thorn. But I also think that there were so many roses that the thorn stopped mattering.