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Josh Duhamel, who starred alongside Katherine Heigl successful the 2010 rom-com, Life arsenic We Know It, precocious came to his co-star's defense: "Katy Heigl gets a atrocious rap, but she's awesome."
Katherine Heigl Reflects connected Past Controversial Remarks
There's nary grey country for Josh Duhamel when it comes to singing Katherine Heigl's praises.
The Shotgun Wedding actor precocious reflected connected his acquisition moving with the Grey's Anatomy alum connected the 2010 movie Life arsenic We Know It, refuting the communicative that followed her done the 2010s that she was "difficult" to enactment with.
"Katy Heigl gets a atrocious rap, but she's awesome," Josh said during the Jan. 30 occurrence of the Chicks successful the Office podcast. "She's great."
He continued, "She astir apt said immoderate things that she astir apt wishes she could've taken backmost but my experience, connected and disconnected surface with her, was awesome."
If you're wondering what the "some things" would beryllium successful notation to, let america to drawback you up to speed: In 2008, Katherine withdrew her sanction from Emmy information for Grey's Anatomy—despite picking up the trophy a twelvemonth prior—stating astatine the clip that she didn't consciousness she was "given the material" to warrant a nomination.
(She would later apologize to the show's creator Shonda Rhimes and said her connection "wasn't fair" to the show's writers).
The pursuing year, contention was further fueled erstwhile she candidly spoke astir her "seventeen-hour workdays" connected Grey's Anatomy during an quality connected The Late Show With David Letterman, adding that their schedules astatine the clip were "cruel and mean." Heigl would exit the bid successful 2010.
More than a decennary later, she reflected connected her statements and the scrutiny that ensued.
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"Some of you whitethorn retrieve implicit 10 years agone I was precise vocal astir the absurdity of the moving hours crews and actors were being forced into by production," she wrote successful a September 2021 Instagram post. "Even Diane Sawyer interviewed maine and not truthful kindly informed maine 'no 1 feels atrocious for you.' I precise publically and for many, galore years after, got my ass kicked for speaking up."
Noting that the backlash made her "struggle with self-confidence and self-worth," she besides shared that she's adjacent braver moving forward.
As she enactment it, "I talk up contiguous and accidental with zero hesitation oregon regret."
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