Sarah Drew Clarifies Statement that She has ‘No Attachment’ to Grey’s Anatomy
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00:00I know that you were recently on the Call It What It Is podcast and it was probably so great
00:04to kind of reminisce. Yes. But I know some of your comments kind of went viral. Oh geez. Yes,
00:11how you said you were kind of unceremoniously fired from the show. Right. What did you kind
00:15of mean by that? So this is what's hilarious. Hollywood loves to Hollywood. Yes. I was
00:23telling a story about the insanity of clickbait headlines. That was the whole point of the story.
00:30The point of the story had nothing to do with getting fired. Actually, it had to do with
00:35the outpouring of love was so epic that the love that I felt was and I was telling a silly story
00:41about one quote I had given that became the clickbait headline. Sarah Drew Likens getting
00:48fired to attending her own funeral. Gag me. It's so stupid. But the point of it being I,
00:55I witnessed an explosion of love that was so enormous that I never would have seen had I not
01:03been fired in a way that felt very shocking to everybody, everybody across the board. That's
01:09not news. Yeah, that was it was a shock. Right. Yeah. No, definitely. Right. No. So I've said
01:14that before. I said it a million times to tell this story to my girlfriends on this podcast is
01:20like, isn't that hilarious how Hollywood grabbed that thing and turned it into this clickbait
01:25headline that made it sound like I'm like, I'm dead and mourning, you know, when all I was trying
01:32to say was, oh, my gosh, people are so good in the midst, like in the midst of pain, there's so much
01:38love. And when you have a moment of loss happen, I am such a believer in like hunting for the beauty
01:45and hunting for the light. And I experienced it in such an epic way that I couldn't stop talking
01:51about it. And I would never give it up. Never. But of course, of course, Hollywood loves the
01:57Hollywood and they love to just sit in the negativity. What did you mean by saying that
02:02like you feel like you don't really have any attachment to it? Oh, gosh. Yeah. And of course,
02:06that was also people want to know what that meant. It's just that I don't when you're on a show like
02:12that and and your livelihood is dependent on them continuing to write for you, continuing to be on
02:19the show. I don't I don't have that attachment anymore. You feel you feel there's some anxiety
02:25and there's some stress of like, I hope you still like me. I hope you still want me. I hope I'm
02:29making everybody happy enough because if I lose the job, I lose my livelihood. Right. You know,
02:34but when I just go back to visit, I don't have that kind of attachment. You know, there's I don't
02:40I'm just visiting. Right. I have my whole other life. I have all this joy in all these other
02:46places. I'm not dependent on them for anything anymore, you know, so there's a freedom in that.
02:52But in terms of like emotional attachment, I I will always be attached to April and I will always
02:59be attached to the family of Grey's Anatomy always. But in terms of like needing that,
03:07needing the show for my survival or for my livelihood, that's what I meant. That's what
03:12you meant. No, it's so true. But what would you say is maybe the biggest lesson that you learned
03:17in that moment? Because like you said, you were this is somebody that you were attached to for
03:21so long and then it all kind of comes crumbling down. And I feel like everybody has that moment
03:26in their life when they're kind of kicked down and you kind of have to pick yourself back up.
03:28Yeah. What do I do next? Yeah. And now, obviously, we see you you're thriving and doing so many
03:33different things. But what was that lesson in that moment that you learned? I think the lesson
03:37was really about learning that it's all going to be OK, like some. It was it was a lesson in
03:45surrender and the reality that I'm in an industry that goes it flips and flops and flip simply.
03:52They love you. They hate you. They want you. They don't. It is you. If you try to rest your identity
03:59that that was it, that was a big part of it. I think my identity got shook when it happened
04:05because I was identified as that girl from Grey's. You know, I was that girl on Grey's.
04:10I didn't know that the show is evergreen and I will always be that girl on Grey's like
04:15that. April's never going away. You know, Grey's is never going away. And she is a part of me. She
04:20became a part of my identity. But I think what I learned in that moment is I need to relinquish,
04:28like open the hand, open my hands in any job, in any of these places. If I'm holding too tightly
04:35to myself and my worth and my value being in this particular thing, I will I will crumble. I will
04:43crumble and fall to the ground when that inevitably goes away. So learning to kind of relinquish it
04:50and go, I now know how to relinquish anywhere. It's like this comes, this goes. I want mistletoe
04:55murders to go on forever. And if it doesn't, we take a breath and we move on because that's just
05:02that's just part of it. And it's not my identity. Right. I'm so much more than my job. You know,
05:08it's so true.