Shonda Rhimes Says She Left ABC for Netflix After Being Refused a Free Disneyland Pass

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, as the first projects she's produced for Netflix are set to premiere later this year. (First up is a documentary on Debbie Allen, then Bridgerton.

Her original series on scammer Anna Delvey, Inventing Anna, will eventually follow.)Given how successful her shows have been for , you'd think the network would've treated her like a queen—but according to Rhimes, there was constant pushback over everything, from budgets to a commercial she and her filmed for . "I felt like I was dying," she told . "Like I'd been pushing the same ball up the same hill in the exact same way for a really long time."The final straw came in the form of a free pass to Disneyland (ABC is owned by Disney).