SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episode 2107 of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, “If You Leave” Popular longtime Grey’s Anatomy cast member Jake Borelli bid farewell to the venerable medical drama in the Nov.
14 episode as his character, Levi Schmitt, left Grey Sloan for a peds research position in Texas, joined by his hot Chaplain boyfriend, James.
In an interview with Deadline, Borelli recalled how he found out that his character’s time on the show was up after eight years. (Deadline broke the news of Borelli’s pending exit after a final Season 21 arc on his 33rd birthday in May.) While Levi only got to have two meaningful scenes with fellow doctors after he made his decision to take the Texas job in a relatively low-key Grey’s exit, Borelli didn’t mind as they were with Levi’s closest friends on-screen, Taryn Helm and Jo Wilson, played by two of Borelli’s closest friends off-screen, Jaicy Elliot and Camilla Luddington, respectively.
Still, he shared that there was one character he wanted to see Levi break the news to. In the interview, Borelli discussed filming the emotional goodbyes with Elliot and Luddington and revealed the last scene he filmed as well as the significance of the fleeting encounter with the interns.