Isaiah Washington claims Ellen Pompeo was paid hush money to protect Patrick Dempsey

[TMC]

The pinned tweet is a link to a 2018 Periscope live video by Mo'Nique and Sidney where they interviewed former ABC attorney Kim Clayton Hershman and read the below email:




Full video here: Mo'Nique Worldwide @moworldwide

Here is the excerpt from the June 6th Vanity Fair article Isaiah is referencing in his first tweet:

What, exactly, was Pompeo referring to when she described the show’s initial “toxic work environment”? We’ve got a few educated guesses. The earliest, and perhaps most infamous, behind-the-scenes episode in the show’s history came in 2006 when reports surfaced about Isaiah Washington using a homophobic slur to describe T.R. Knight during a heated argument with Dempsey. (Washington himself said he never called Knight the F-word, but granted that he did use the term during the argument—to describe “somebody who is being weak.”) Regardless, Knight came out publicly after that, while Washington was eventually fired from the series. (Although Washington did later return for a guest spot at the end of season 10.)

There’s also the tension that later emerged between Katherine Heigl and Rhimes, after Heigl withdrew herself from Emmy consideration in 2008—saying that the show had not given her worthy enough material that year.

Pompeo has discussed both of these incidents before. In 2013, she told the New York Post, “Hurt feelings, combined with instant success and huge paychecks, started things spinning out of control. The crazier things got, as I watched all the tumult with Isaiah and then the Katie thing, I started to focus on the work.”​

Full Vanity Fair Article Available Here: Ellen Pompeo Recalls “Really Toxic Work Environment” on Early Grey’s Anatomy