A book about ABC’s hit series Grey’s Anatomy is about to his shelves just as the show enters its 18th season and it’s trying to put an artful new spin on some old (very old) backstage drama.In How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy, author Lynette Rice revisits the controversial firing of actor Isaiah Washington after he used an antigay slur against co-star T.
R. Knight in 2006, resulting in Knight being outed in the press, and then repeated the slur again at the 2007 Golden Globes.Afterwards, Washington apologized and even recorded a PSA with GLAAD, which aired during a Grey’s Anatomy re-run.
Some people accepted his apology. Others did not. And eventually life moved on, though Washington’s career never recovered.Now, 14.