He and Shonda were at each other’s throats.' He didn’t like the inconvenience of coming in every day and working. The network and studio came down and we had sessions with them. He had this hold on the set where he knew he could stop production and scare people. Some cast members had all sorts of PTSD with him. The Hollywood Reporter quoted the EP as saying in the book, 'Shonda needed an OG to come in as sort of a showrunner for fourteen episodes. However, his exit from the show in 2015 left fans shocked. He appeared in the medical drama Grey’s Anatomy for the first 11 seasons.

He also said that Patrick and show writer Shonda Rhimes 'were at each other’s throats'.Īuthor Lynette Rice in her upcoming book How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy wrote about Patrick Dempsey's exit from the show. Actor Patrick Dempsey, who played Dr Derek ‘McDreamy’ Shepard in Grey’s Anatomy, was terrorising the set prior to his exit, the show's executive producer James D Parriott has claimed in a new book.

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