Isaiah Washington On Real Reason He Was Fired From 'Grey's'

March 21st, 2018, 11:25 pm

Isaiah Washington On Real Reason He Was Fired From 'Grey's'

This was the second highest rated episode aired after a Super Bowl game in TV history, but guess who got nominated for an Emmy and given a major role in a King Kong Movie a few months after? It was the ‘guest starring’ actor playing the Lead Bomb Squad Officer that was blown up. pic.twitter.com/bDYPbNkD2B
— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) March 16, 2018

Who do you go to to get your reputation back after living with a 11 year old LIE? Thank You .@TMZLive for giving me the platform to clear my name discussing the “whistle blower” #KimClaytonHershman that has proof that ABCS Business Affairs Executive Howard Davine hurt my career. pic.twitter.com/pvmaZcMsSD
— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) March 20, 2018

Billy Bush knew what really went down and was trying to get me to say it every time I did his show Access Hollywood. ABC threatened to sue Billy Bush after this interview: THIS: https://t.co/dGQmWEuKwq
— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) March 20, 2018

Washington insisted that he was fired from the show back in 2007 over false accusations made by an allegedly racist ABC executive, Howard Davine. Rhimes is aware of this and is actually in his corner.

The problem with powerful and arrogant men, is that they get comfortable wielding their misogynistic, racist behavior behind closed doors and then they slip. Howard Davine should have left well enough alone, but no, he needed to hurt me...again. No more. I’m activated now....@TMZ pic.twitter.com/SsRVWyloOw
— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) March 21, 2018

The funny thing is I always thought that Shonda Rhimes had given me the greatest gift in the world, until it was taken away by selfish, lying and evil people. Now, it’s a “whistle blower” named #KimClaytonHershman who has given me an even greater gift. She’s helping clear my name pic.twitter.com/4sMYbaCQlq
— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) March 21, 2018

#MySleepTweet There lies the problem. I NEVER used the f-word to attack T.R and when I used it at the GG’s I was denying that I did to defend myself from the LIE. Now that we are on this, how can a person be fired for free speech when I went back work for 8 months after the GG’s? https://t.co/P2ajVfYKes
— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) March 21, 2018

For all of you Grey’s Anatomy Fans...#Truthdom #CallHowardDavine pic.twitter.com/DH3FSqJrWu
— Isaiah Washington (@IWashington) March 19, 2018

Sources : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Tagged: black celebrities, celebrity social media, firing / termination, greys anatomy (abc), what is the truth

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i am so confused

Me too bb

That makes three of us

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same

Same. I saw this post at 0 comments and was like "... i'll come back when there's more comments so someone can explain wtf is going on"

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From what I can gather, he's saying he wasn't fired for calling TR Knight the f-word and never did so. He further claims that the only time he said it was when defending himself at the Golden Gloves over the accusation.

The letter is from a casting agent with ABC who was fired possibly in retaliation for informing other casting department heads the actual reasoning as to why Isiah could not be hired back for a different ABC show recently instead of the public story that was given years ago. She forwarded the letter to Isaiah to make sure he was okay with her using his story as a part of the email since it was most likely due to that that she was fired. She was asked to sign a contract by ABC stating that she left to return to consulting which she states is false and that they threatened to say she was fired for performance issues (which she claims she can back up that there were no performance issues) if she wouldn't sign it.

Basically the claim is that the "f-word" story was made up by Howard Davine/ABC in order to fire Isaiah in order to keep Patrick Dempsey/pay Patrick more and that Isaiah was blacklisted for trying to speak up about it. A casting agent who was recently terminated is backing up his story.

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Seems he's prevaricating to cover his ass. And IMO, it's not cool to use the very real racism that exists, as an excuse for his homophobia, and choking a co-star who objected to his homophobia. Now I would also say that it is very possible that his being fired was at least in part due to racism (like a white famous dude doing the same things might have had to take some time off instead), but what he did, bigotry and physically assaulting a co-worker, shouldn't be allowed in any corporate setting, and are very valid reasons for people to be fired.

I'm glad this is the first post and the page loaded quickly because I was about to post the same.

Right there with ya

well, shit.

ngl, i lost interest in GA when burke and addison left.

Is this homophobe still trying.

what is the truth?

I just want Jessica Capshaw to stay...

it's the April curse, she's so awful and terrible that she couldn't go in peace, no, she also had to take a loved character with her

Lmao

this bored me

What a confusing mess. I've actually completely forgotten about these people and this scandal god I feel old. If he didn't really call T.R. that then good on him I guess, but he shouldn't have repeated it at the GGs. That was just stupid. Btw wtf ever happened to T.R. Knight? That's a name I've not heard in a long time. Wikipedia tells me he does a few guest appearances here and there, but sis imma need you to SHINE and get that QUEER REPRESENTATION, MAMA.

Edited at 2018-03-21 10:41 pm (UTC)

I think T.R. did some theater after the show, but it's been awhile since I pay attention to him. I was never a fan of George.

I think he went back to theater. The whole thing with GA and Shonda soured him on TV, it took him a while to go back to a TV show (I think I saw him in The Good Wife and The Catch).

I looked him up on Wikipedia about a month ago when I was rewatching S1. It looks like he got married and lives in the Hudson Valley doing theater.

He was in 11/22/63 on Hulu and I thought he did well.

don't disrespect Kyle Chandler like that

I don't get why he dragged him into this mess.

right? kyle chandler is amazing and deserves all the awards

MTE, leave Coach out of this.

this was my first thought. what's he got to do with this lmao

Right?? WTF?! Those episodes are iconic, but it's not like he wrote them and deliberately screwed Burke over...??

I know, right? The audacity...

Coach Taylor would never!

Right? He would probably want to be excluded from this narrative.

I'm so confused why he's being involved in this? Like...

lmao mte

MTE

what did he say about him?? I'm not seeing it anywhere.

He was blown up in the Super Bowl ep mentioned in the first tweet in the post

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that episode put Kyle on the map. no one remembers the doctor drama, they remember the bomb squad.

it makes no sense to drag him

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mte!

Right, like how dare he? And if he's gonna try, at least get the facts right. King Kong came out a year before the bomb episode aired, like come on man

I'm on mobile so it's really hard to Read that letter but didn't he also shove Knight? He also didn't need to say that slur when trying to defend himself.

On the other hand Ellen Pompeo flat out said she didn't want a black man as her love interest for some bullshit reason when Washington tried out for the McDreamy (ugh) role so I have no doubt there was racism accepted in that environment behind the scenes.

I'm also a little confused about how influential Shonda was as showrunner at that time. I know people side-eye her for trying to protect IW after that blowup which was a really poor decision but also a lot of folks here blame her for Heigls career flatlining.

Edited at 2018-03-21 10:42 pm (UTC)

Wait whaaaaaaat @ Ellen?

iirc she didn't wanted her show character to be too close to her real life or something

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The rumor was that he and Patrick Dempsey got physical.

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I am sure there must be more to your Ellen comment if she said that as her husband is black and her children are also.

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"Shonda really wanted to put a black man in the mix," Pompeo said to the Post about the idea that the show's executive producer, Shonda Rhimes, had for Pompeo's love interest. But Pompeo says that she asked for someone else because "it was too close to home."

🤔🤔🤔

She is married to an African American.

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Ellen has been with her husband since 2003 (before the show) and he's black, so I wonder why she didn't want Isaiah as her love interest.

Ya, I remember her saying that on Oprah, they laughed and the camera zoomed on her husband. I was shocked and was with IW when he called them out on their bs reasoning in an interview a few months later with Baily (don't know her real name).

Edited at 2018-03-21 11:11 pm (UTC)

He's still a homophobe, tho. Didn't T.R. (and others) confirm that he called him the F word? I doubt absolutely everyone was lying.

Whatever really happened, Burke was trash.

Edited at 2018-03-21 10:44 pm (UTC)

I don't know but repeating the F-word in public and to the media illustrated how comfortable he was saying it. He could have defended himself without say the actual word.

Exactly!

Exactly. Go in sis as the usual <3

Exactly. That shit isn't complicated.

Do I think his career got hurt because he's black? Absolutely.
Do I think he is (was?) a raging homophobe? Absolutely.

Also is he dissing Kyle Chandler??

Thank you. The Kyle Chandler bit is what got me. Why is he bringing his name into this?

all of this is me

he's a pos but god Burke and Christina were my favorite characters, like the only normal people in that entire hospital, and so I pretend the show ended with him leaving her at the alter

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sometimes the acting can elevate an unlikable character. isaiah did a lot of heavy lifting with his role in the first two seasons IMO tbh but i can understand why ppl wouldn't like his character.

this is probably still one of my favorite scenes of the show lol

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i liked him, probably because isaiah was good in the role, but his relationship with cristina did bother me, like when he put his pride before her emotional well -being

Oh my god same whenever he came back in whatever country Cristina went to I screamed and cried I loved them so much

He said faggot and white Hollywood is going to make him pay for that shit for the rest of his life. Honestly he deserves better. If he were a white man no one would blink a eye and he would of got a pay rise.

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mte

yeah he shouldn't be allowed to keep his job after harrassing a coworker w homophobic slurs... it's white guys who should also be fired for it.

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not only did he book a show after greys but he hasnt stopped working since.

the guy who verbally and physically attacked his coworkers and still wont own up to it years later is doing just fine and isnt labeled "difficult" unlike another former cast member.

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he was just homophobic, nbd

yikes

Y I K E S @ this comment

NO homophobia should be allowed or tolerated by anyone ever, period.

You mean it should be that the white man should get exactly what he got, not the other way around.

And no, he does not deserve better. He actually deserves worse for being a total asshole. He should be grateful he is still working.

Him trying to twist this as racism to garner sympathy further proves how much of a piece of shit he is. LYING about not using the slur against witnesses is so low. He made things worse for him.

Edited at 2018-03-22 03:52 pm (UTC)

wtf is going on? this is like 11 years old and TR straight up has confirmed what he did soo is he also part of this great conspiracy??? damn like why not just make a public statement& apology that u grew in 11 years, not inform us that u still refuse to own up to 11yo mistakes :/

"Ellen: And Isaiah Washington says what to Patrick Dempsey?

T.R: He referred to me as a faggot.

Ellen: As a faggot?

T.R: Yes.

Ellen: So you’re around the corner and hear this?

T.R: It’s an awesome word, isn’t it? (joking)"

http://www.newnownext.com/tr-knight-talks-says-washington-did-call-him-faggot/01/2007/

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