Shonda Rhimes, Creator of Grey's Anatomy, reveals the “hardest” death she had to write

Gray's anatomy The creator and former showrunner Shonda Rhimes has revealed the most difficult death that she had to write about the long -standing medical drama.

The hit series, now in its 21st season, is notorious because it killed numerous main characters. Fans often take into account the death of Dr. George O'malley (Tr.

For Rhimes, however, it was not one of the above characters whose death influenced them most. Instead, she found the tragic death of fan favorites Denny Duquette (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to write as “hardest”.

“We knew that a point of action would be this man from the beginning of the season that was young,” said the award-winning producer on Thursday at a Paley Center event in New York City, who celebrated 20 years of Shondaland. “And then we met Jeffrey Dean Morgan and the young man actually had to die.”

Duquette was introduced as a patient in the second season premiere of the second season, which urgently need a heart transplant. During his stay in the hospital, he is romantically involved with Dr. Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl), and the two finally got started. At the end of the season, his condition worsens and Stevens convinces him to get an LVAD implant as a temporary solution while waiting for a donor heart to be available. Then to move it to the transplant list, Stevens cuts his LVAD wire to worsen his condition. Her plan ultimately closes back and Duquette dies in the season finale entitled “Loss of my religion”.

“Doc The Hund also died in this episode,” producer Betsy Beers recalled Dr. Meredith Gray (Ellen Pompeo) and Shepherds loved pet.

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Rhimes remembered that Morgan told her that the dog's death lasted “five minutes longer” than Duquette.

In the long, drawn scene, Gray and Shepherd bring their dog Doc, who suffers from bone cancer, to the vet, where they make the difficult decision to put it down.

“It was a bloodbath,” said Beers about the multi-death episode.

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Pompeo, the original series leadership, officially resigned as a full-time actor in season 19, which was broadcast in 2022.

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While she continues to make the voice lever for every episode, their actual phenomena are only a few. However, she recently explained why she didn't completely leave the series and admitted that she would “make no sense” to terminate the show “emotionally or financially”.

“The show was streamed more than a billion times in 2024 – more than a billion Times ”, she said El PaísAdd: “The companies that own the show and stream the show earn a lot of money from our pictures and our voices and faces.

“If I went away completely, everyone can make money with my hard work for 20 years and I would not make money,” said Pompeo.

“It makes no sense for me that everyone [else] Benefits from my hard work. And emotionally, the show means a lot to people. I would like to have an attitude of gratitude towards the show. “

Gray's anatomyWhat approaches the end of the 21st season was officially renewed for the 22nd season.