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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Ukraine says it aided rebels in Mali to defeat Russian Wagner Group mercenaries.</li><li>The battle shows a new front for Ukraine in countering Russia — this time, in Africa.</li></ul>Ukraine's defense intelligence claimed a role in a recent battle in Africa — where separatist rebels destroyed a detachment of Russian Wagner Group mercenaries fighting overseas.Andriy Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate said on a TV broadcast on Monday that the rebels got "necessary information" from Ukraine to win the battle, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36557">the Kyiv Post reported</a>. He did not give further details.The paper published a photograph of Malian separatist forces holding up a Ukrainian flag, an apparent expression of solidarity with the country.Business Insider was unable to independently verify the image.The apparent involvement of Ukrainian intelligence in the battle suggests a new dimension in its efforts to counter Russia.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://t.me/razgruzka_vagnera/592">Razgruzka Vagnera, a social media channel</a> closely linked to the Wagner Group, on Monday admitted major losses in a week-long battle with separatist forces and a Jihadi group near the town of Tinzaouaten, in eastern Mali.Wagners fought alongside Malian armed forces, the channel said.The channel said Wagner forces, alongside Malian fighters, initially saw off the attack before a sandstorm developed and allowed the rebel forces to regroup with greater numbers.They attacked the mercenaries once again with heavy weapons, drones and suicide vehicles, the channel said.The last message sent from the Wagner Group's forces said there were just three left fighting, the channel said.It's unclear how many people were killed, with estimates ranging between 20 and 50, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ng5zkn7dro">the BBC reported</a>.The battle killed Wagner Group commander Sergei Shevchenko, Razguzra Vagnera said.The independent Russian Telegram channel Astra also reported that the popular Russian propagandist Nikita Fedyanin was killed.BI was unable to independently verify the reports.Fedyanin has more than half a million followers on his pro-Russian GREY ZONE Telegram channel, which shares updates on Wagner activities.The channel has not posted since July 23, when it shared an image of Wagner Group soldiers in what it said was one of the countries of the African Sahel — which includes Mali.Photos circulating online appear to show killed and captured Wagner soldiers. BI was also unable to verify those images.The separatist group that claimed responsibility for the attack is the Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security and Development, or CSP-PSD, the BBC reported.The al-Qaida-affiliated Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin also claimed responsibility, per the BBC.The CSP-PSD opposes Mali's junta, which has been propped up by the Wagner Group for several years.The junta leader, Colonel Assimi Goïta, deposed the country's elected president in 2020.Since then, Goïta and his supporters have routinely postponed promised elections, cementing his power with the "apparent intent to maintain military government indefinitely," <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://africacenter.org/spotlight/2024-elections/mali/">as the Pentagon-funded Africa Center for Strategic Studies put it</a>.ACSS says that the junta brought in around 1,000 Wagner troops, at a cost of an estimated $10.9 million a month. The relationship with Wagner has continued even after the death last year of the group's founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin.African military leaders like Goïta can "simply cannot survive without Moscow's support," the ACSS wrote.The battle is a single flashpoint amid vast Wagner Group-led Russian influence operations across Africa.The ACSS <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://africacenter.org/spotlight/mapping-a-surge-of-disinformation-in-africa/">has mapped</a> Russian disinformation campaigns in 25 African countries, including Mali, and has <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://africacenter.org/spotlight/inflection-point-for-africa-russia-relations-after-prigozhins-death/">long tracked</a> the Wagner Group's activities there."In Mali, Wagner is linked to more than 320 incidents of human rights abuses and hundreds of civilian deaths," as of last year, it wrote.

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<ul><li><keyword id="7015472" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sahil-Trehan">Sahil Trehan</keyword> has kicked off his entrepreneurial journey with <keyword id="11728175" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="razorlabs">RazorLabs</keyword>, a marketing technology company.</li><li>Based in Delhi, RazorLabs will be focused on marketing and sales transformation, via a range of smart solutions built to dovetail with existing processes, helping in disruption, growth and evolution of the functions. </li><li>In addition, the company will also provide data driven solutions aimed at stronger returns on marketing investment and higher measurability. </li></ul>Former Vice President of <keyword id="9028852" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="autumngrey">AutumnGrey</keyword> (<keyword id="353703" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Grey-Group">Grey group</keyword>), Sahil Trehan has kicked off his entrepreneurial journey with RazorLabs, a marketing technology company as Chief Executive Officer. Sahil co-founded Razorlabs with <keyword id="11728176" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="shubhankar-nath">Shubhankar Nath</keyword> – CEO and Founder of Razorpod, a full service digital marketing agency. Based in Delhi, RazorLabs will be focused on marketing and sales transformation, via a range of smart solutions built to dovetail with existing processes, helping in disruption, growth and evolution of the functions. In addition, the company will also provide data driven solutions aimed at stronger returns on marketing investment and higher measurability. Talking about his new journey, Sahil said, “With the <keyword id="4274900" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="MarTech">MarTech</keyword> &amp; ConsumerTech heating up further, I have been urging to enter this space, to enable marketing &amp; sales to be even more effective and efficient, for businesses across sizes and segments.” “The core idea of Razorlabs is always going to be providing scalable solutions with data at the centre, further, powered by technology to make them localized, and customized to needs. The vision is to have a wide product portfolio across MarTech and ConsumerTech with a mix of both home grown and global partnerships” he stated further. Shubhankar said “As an entrepreneur, I’ve always been focused on leveraging the endless possibilities layering technology with creative &amp; data offer. With RazorLabs, the intent is to leverage this amalgamation to drive stronger experiences across the customer journey and incremental value to the marketer.” At AutumnGrey, Sahil was leading <keyword id="11729293" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="strategy-emerging-technology">Strategy &amp; Emerging Technology</keyword> and has created path breaking work for clients like <keyword id="54572" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="PepsiCo">PepsiCo</keyword>, Reckitt Benckiser, HP, <keyword id="47120" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="PG">P&amp;G</keyword> China, <keyword id="1731609" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Oppo">OPPO</keyword>, Dabur and Microsoft to name a few.

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<ul><li>Yashaswini Samat – current CEO of GREY India will be relocating to Singapore to take up a Senior integrated role for WPP/GREY. </li><li><keyword id="2950742" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sandipan-Bhattacharyya">Sandipan Bhattacharyya</keyword>, CCO, has been promoted to Managing Director (MD) &amp; Chief Creative Officer (CCO), <keyword id="353703" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Grey-Group">GREY group</keyword> India. </li></ul> GREY group today announced a new structure and go to market strategy in India. <keyword id="2657559" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anusha-Shetty">Anusha Shetty</keyword>, CEO AutumnGrey, a digital-first leader &amp; trailblazer, has been appointed Chairman &amp; Group CEO, GREY Group India. Shetty is known for her relentless passion in developing and driving client business. Under her leadership, AutumnGrey has delivered several ground-breaking and award-winning online &amp; digital campaigns that has firmly established AutumnGrey as one of India’s premier digital agencies. Her leadership &amp; management skills, along with her digital knowledge is second to none. With over 20 years of marketing &amp; advertising experience, and a career spanning across India and Silicon Valley, Shetty co-founded Autumn Worldwide, a hyper-specialised Digital Marketing firm with offerings such as; Digital Creative Outreach, Big Data Listening &amp; insights, Business Intelligence, Online Reputation Management, Command Center Management, Media Planning &amp; Buying and Technology Development. Prior to this, Shetty has held progressive assignments in agencies like Lowe and Euro RSCG, working on multiple brands including; Intel, Titan, Unilever, Honeywell, to name just a few. Shetty will work closely with Nirvik Singh to ensure a seamless transition of leadership as they combine the creative strength of GREY with data-driven digital solutions from AutumnGrey, to create a future-facing agency model and framework. Anusha Shetty commented, “Convergence as a topic is not new. But to see this in action, driving value for our clients and our end consumers, is a dream for all of us. The breakdown of communication silos is the only way to create a future agency model and I am delighted to lead this journey with Sandipan.” “Anusha is one of those unique talents who possesses a rare combination of digital &amp; social media knowledge along with entrepreneurial flair &amp; business acumen. She is a natural-born leader who along with her team, will bring ideal digital, creative and business solutions to clients across various industries. I think with her wealth of experience she is the right person to take the agency to the next level. This is very much a game-changing moment for GREY India,” said Nirvik Singh, Global COO GREY group and Chairman &amp; CEO, GREY AMEA. Sandipan Bhattacharyya, CCO, has been promoted to Managing Director (MD) &amp; Chief Creative Officer (CCO), GREY group India. He has led the agency to win multiple Lions at Cannes, India’s first D&amp;AD Yellow Pencil in Design, a Grand Prix and over a dozen metals at Spikes, Adfest, One Show and several Effies. In addition, he has played a major creative role in all of the agency’s big business wins. The newly created role of Creative Leader as Managing Director signals GREY’s vision of putting creative front and centre of its growth story. As MD &amp; CCO of GREY India, Bhattacharyya will be responsible for driving GREY’s mandate of famously effective work to the next level. GREY’s creative work is rooted in pop culture and under his leadership GREY has launched some of the most iconic campaigns in the last decade. Bhattacharyya has over 20 years of experience in advertising, prior to GREY he has worked at BBDO India, Enterprise Nexus and Saatchi &amp; Saatchi. “Sandi is extremely talented and has been instrumental in taking GREY’s creativity to a global level. His creative direction &amp; storytelling expertise is a conversation starter and his campaigns are found in the middle of pop culture. With a dual approach of Creative and Digital working in unison, GREY is in the right place to create more ground-breaking, famously effective work for its clients,” remarked Nirvik Singh. Sandipan said, “It’s the perfect blend of creativity, technology and data that’s happening at GREY and I’m lucky to be leading these exciting times. Anusha and I are both intensely creative beings who think of ideas as a business multiplier, and we’re cooking up a hot new sauce. Watch this space or better still, give us a call” Yashaswini Samat – current CEO of GREY India will be relocating to Singapore to take up a Senior integrated role for WPP/GREY. She will continue to report to Singh.

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<ul><li><keyword id="168456" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="WPP">WPP</keyword> has announced the merging of two of its leading agencies, <keyword id="613852" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="AKQA">AKQA</keyword> and <keyword id="22834" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Grey">Grey</keyword>, to form a new entity, AKQA Group.</li><li>Grey is renowned for creative storytelling and global brand-building at scale, while AKQA is celebrated for its world-class innovation and experience design skills.</li><li>The AKQA Group will have 6,000 people in more than 50 countries and a blue-chip client roster that includes more than half of the Fortune 500’s top 20.</li><li>AKQA founder <keyword id="1541608" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ajaz-Ahmed">Ajaz Ahmed</keyword> and <keyword id="1274283" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Grey-Worldwide">Grey Worldwide</keyword> CEO <keyword id="3820685" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Michael-Houston">Michael Houston</keyword> will partner to lead the new Group. </li></ul>WPP’s AKQA and Grey are uniting to form a new network model, AKQA Group. Grey is renowned for creative storytelling and global brand-building at scale, while AKQA is celebrated for its world-class innovation and experience design skills. With heightened demand for digital transformation and technology-driven capabilities, the combination will create a powerful new proposition for clients as a leading creative solutions company with a worldwide footprint. The AKQA Group will have 6,000 people in more than 50 countries and a blue-chip client roster that includes more than half of the Fortune 500’s top 20. It will provide a full range of brand experience capabilities across all communications platforms, strengthening the skills and services of both companies for clients. AKQA founder Ajaz Ahmed and Grey Worldwide CEO Michael Houston will partner to lead the new Group. Ahmed will become Chief Executive Officer and Houston will become Global President and Chief Operating Officer of AKQA Group. The AKQA Group will launch with the AKQA and Grey brands, which will be integrated over time into a single company based on client and market needs. The management team and creative leadership will be announced in the coming weeks, comprising leaders from AKQA and Grey. AKQA and Grey have highly compatible creative cultures and share a common belief in the power of creativity. Between them they have won nearly 600 Cannes Lions in the last decade. The two agencies have complementary, non-competitive client rosters. The combined AKQA Group will have expertise in the media, entertainment and technology sectors as well as packaged goods, healthcare and financial services. Ajaz Ahmed said, “Our goal is to expand horizons, combining the curiosity, ambition, imagination and pioneering spirit of a startup with the reach of a global enterprise. This is an unparalleled opportunity for AKQA and Grey to bring our shared assets to life into a modern, creatively-led company, building upon our inspiring and useful work to create value for our clients, people and communities.” Michael Houston said, “This exciting new partnership begins with what consumers expect, clients value, and brands need. Forming a new company that can deliver culture-driving ideas through technology at speed and scale is a potent proposition for our clients, large and small, and will allow us to offer the most powerful creative solutions in the industry.” <keyword id="570483" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mark-Read">Mark Read</keyword>, CEO of WPP, said, “Our clients want outstanding creativity, powered by technology expertise and delivered at a global scale. This new company is designed precisely to meet those needs and is another important step forward in building our future-facing offer for clients.” Grey, named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, is trusted globally by clients from the fastest-growing startups to leading multinationals and government agencies. Over the past five years, the agency has received top industry accolades for creative effectiveness, including: Adweek Global Agency of the Year (twice), the Grand Effie, Effie Agency of the Year, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Agency of the Year with 395 Cannes Lions. Grey’s growing global Health &amp; Wellness practice counts many of the world’s largest pharma and health-related companies as clients. AKQA, recognised as a digital pioneer and a creative innovator, has won over 60 Agency of the Year awards; led Gartner’s independent evaluation of Global Marketing Agencies for three years in succession; led IDC’s quantitative and qualitative assessment of success in Customer Experience Design; won two Grand Prix at the most recent Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity; been named by Fast Company as a Best Workplace for Innovators; and achieved a consistent track record of growth since its founding. The move follows the successful combination of other WPP agencies to create <keyword id="7067090" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Wunderman-Thompson">Wunderman Thompson</keyword>, VMLY&amp;R and BCW, which have been among WPP’s best-performing companies by addressing client needs for more integrated, creative and technology-driven solutions.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Sarah Drew stars in and wrote the new Lifetime film "Reindeer Games Homecoming."</li><li>The holiday rom-com marks her screenwriting debut and explores grief.</li></ul>Sarah Drew doesn't remember taking a photograph <a href="https://www.insider.com/oprah-winfrey-says-she-didnt-plan-bombshell-interview-harry-meghan-2022-9">with Oprah Winfrey</a>. All she recalls from that fateful evening in September are two approving words from the Hollywood titan ("Your dress!"), a twist to check the label (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CjVSdYKgTNk/">Pinko</a>), and the hug they shared. But the next day, an image of the two stars and a video marking the sartorial moment appeared in Drew's Instagram inbox, confirming the unimaginable. One might wonder how an actor whose 25-year career includes breakout roles on "<a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-sarah-drew-wrote-letter-change-april-ending-2021-9">Grey's Anatomy</a>," "Mad Men," and "Glee" could still become starstruck, but consider this: That night, at Variety's annual Power of Women event, Drew, who turned 42 in October, also found herself in the presence of Malala Yousafzai, Ava DuVernay, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, <a href="https://www.insider.com/elizabeth-olsen-losing-roles-marvel-movies-mcu-frustrated-2022-5">and Elizabeth Olsen</a>."I've always had this sense that I'm not at the fancy-people table," she said over a video call in October.<div type="image" title="Sarah Drew in &quot;Reindeer Games Homecoming.&quot;" height="3057" width="4076" msid="95588222" hostid="261"></div>Drew may not consider herself "fancy," even while at a prestigious, invite-only event celebrating some of the world's most powerful women. But whether stopping Oprah in her tracks or portraying multidimensional women, she knows how to leave audiences wanting more. That's how her guest-starring role as April Kepner in a two-episode arc on <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-sarah-drew-japril-spinoff-sexier-2022-5">"Grey's Anatomy" snowballed</a> into a recurring appearance and, later, made her a series regular for nine seasons.She'll be the first to acknowledge that shiny, buzzy roles are awesome. But when her time on the beloved medical-drama series came to an abrupt end, Drew learned just how fleeting fancy can be. So now, instead of waiting around for another table to open up, Drew has spent the past three years building one of her own.<h2>Drew made TV history with her screenwriting debut: 'There is no possibility for me to half-ass anything'</h2><div type="image" title="Sarah Drew in &quot;Reindeer Games Homecoming.&quot;" height="4000" width="5333" msid="95588225" hostid="261"></div>For her screenwriting debut, Drew opted for a challenge by marrying the holidays and grief, two themes as popular as they are complex. "Reindeer Games Homecoming" centers on a high-school biology teacher in Vermont named MacKenzie Graves (played by Drew) and her former high-school crush Chase Weston (her fellow "Grey's" alum Justin Bruening), a celebrity whose hometown return triggers MacKenzie's unresolved heartbreak over her father's death.The Lifetime film premiered Saturday, making Drew the first woman to simultaneously star in, executive produce, and have a solo writing credit on a Lifetime movie through <a href="https://www.mylifetime.com/broaderfocus">the Broader Focus program</a>, the network's initiative meant to uplift and hire more women in writing, directing, and producing roles."There is no possibility for me to half-ass anything," Drew tells me from her home in Los Angeles during our third and final Zoom conversation. "I don't know how to phone something in. It would feel like it would be going completely against my identity and my makeup to do that."It's this attitude that sharpened her instincts and placed her on <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-sarah-drew-nightmares-panic-attacks-filming-hospital-shooting-2021-11">Shonda Rhimes' star-making radar</a>, first for a pilot titled "Inside the Box," which never made it to air; then for a role on the "Grey's" spinoff "Private Practice"; and ultimately, her final destination, the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital.<h2>Her longtime on-screen love Jesse Williams says Drew's confidence is 'badass'</h2><div type="image" title="Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew" height="1998" width="2664" msid="95588228" hostid="261"></div>Drew recalls a moment from the early "Grey's" years when she spotted her costar Sandra Oh, across the room, confidently debating her famous, founding character Dr. Cristina Yang with the head writers. Right then and there in the fake hospital's conference room, Drew decided: "Her, I want to be like her. I want to speak my mind with confidence and passion like she does."Her passionate pitches for April are well-documented in the press. Drew <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/greys-anatomy-april-baby-jackson-772898/">suggested to Rhimes the death of April's infant son Samuel</a> while pregnant with her real-life daughter Hannah Lanfer. Hannah <a href="https://people.com/parents/sarah-drew-daughter-hannah-first-photo-premature-delivery-nicu/">was born</a> 10 hours after she'd filmed Samuel's birth scene. Dialogue also matters to the actor. In season 10, April and her husband Jackson Avery (<a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-why-jesse-williams-left-hit-medical-drama-2022-3">played by Jesse Williams</a>) fought as newlyweds about how they'd raise a hypothetical deaf child. She recalls getting emotional when she saw dialogue that insinuated April pitied her husband for not having faith in God. As a Christian whose personal life inspired much of April's backstory, Drew didn't feel comfortable with her character pitying anyone who didn't share her beliefs."It was so important for me playing April to be a person of faith that didn't denigrate or diminish anyone else's experience," she says, adding that she hadn't seen a person of faith modeled on TV like that until then.<div type="image" title="april kepner grey's anatomy doctor" height="600" width="800" msid="95588229" hostid="261"></div>In the scene that made it to air, April said she felt sorry for Jackson because he didn't know how to believe in something he wasn't able to "touch or feel." It's a subtle difference that challenges Jackson's scientific perspective rather than his religious beliefs.<a href="https://www.insider.com/japril-jesse-williams-sarah-drew-fans-earned-greys-anatomy-spinoff-2022-2">Williams says</a> he admires his former colleague's "radical honesty," her "level of comfort and confidence" in herself, and the fact that she's "not ashamed of anything" she does for the sake of living her truth. "She has her own upbringing, her own style, her own culture, her own things that are not part of the popular group always," he adds. "And she owns it, and she's a badass for it."<h2>Drew tapped into 'emotional courage' in her final days on 'Grey's'</h2><h3><div type="image" title="Sarah Drew smiling" height="2438" width="3245" msid="95588230" hostid="261"></div></h3>In 2018, Drew and her costar Jessica Capshaw learned their characters were being written off of "Grey's Anatomy" <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BgErUJzhPKJ/">less than 48 hours</a> before the industry outlet <a href="https://deadline.com/2018/03/greys-anatomy-jessica-capshaw-sarah-drew-exit-abc-medical-drama-1202316987/">Deadline</a> broke the headline news, titled "Grey's Shocker." The decision was based strictly on the show's creative direction, sources reportedly claimed. At the time, Drew had been shadowing her costar and longtime "Grey's" director Kevin McKidd in the hope of one day directing a full episode. Her husband, Peter Lanfer, convinced her to hold her head up high and continue learning from McKidd regardless, a choice she says took "emotional courage."Drew says she's grateful for her <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-ellen-pompeo-show-could-continue-without-her-2022-5">time on "Grey's Anatomy."</a> She's "surrendered" to the fact that the medical drama will always be a part of her story, but she also makes herself clear toward the end of our first video session. "Do you think we can move on from 'Grey's'?" she asks. "Can we move forward?"<div type="image" title="Grey's Anatomy season 17 episode “Look Up Child”" height="2249" width="3000" msid="95588231" hostid="261"></div>Almost immediately after the news of her departure broke, Drew was cast in leading roles for two CBS dramas in 2018 and 2019, neither of which got the green light. She says she's developed the ability to detach herself from projects as necessary but still calls the latter show's getting killed a "devastating" experience. The series title? "The Republic of Sarah.""I get written off of one show, but then what comes the next year is a show called 'The Republic of --' not some other person's name, but — Sarah," she says, her eyes lighting up at the memory. She looks off-camera, searching for the words to describe her emotions. "It felt like, I don't know, the payoff for all the hard stuff from the year before."<h2>Drew swings big and feels more 'alive' than ever before</h2><div type="image" title="Sarah Drew behind the scenes of &quot;Reindeer Games Homecoming.&quot;" height="4000" width="5333" msid="95588232" hostid="261"></div>A few months later, Drew was filming her second Lifetime film, "Twinkle All the Way," when the inspiration for "Reindeer Games Homecoming" struck: a romantic holiday comedy loosely inspired by <a href="https://home.dartmouth.edu/about/winter-carnival">Dartmouth's Winter Carnival</a>, an annual celebration at her husband's alma mater. When she floated the idea to executive producers, they suggested the actor write the vivid world herself. And in three weeks, she did just that. Eager to breathe life into her script, she pitched the story to several networks and streamers. No luck. It seemed as if her story would never be made until <a href="https://deadline.com/2021/11/sarah-drew-two-picture-deal-lifetime-headline-holiday-films-its-a-wonderful-lifetime-slate-1234865252/">Lifetime called and offered her a two-picture deal</a>. It wanted to help bring her story to life.Brian Herzlinger, who directed "Reindeer Games Homecoming," describes the movie as massive. While films with similar budgets typically have a maximum of three complex scenes, he says, Drew had written eight, including an ice-sculpture contest, a dog-sled-derby race, a ball-hockey game, and a polar bear plunge.When Drew asked Herzlinger to direct the movie, he initially worried she wouldn't be able to devote much attention to her acting performance because of her executive-producing duties. He quickly realized he was wrong.<div type="image" title="Justin Bruening and Sarah Drew in &quot;Reindeer Games Homecoming.&quot;" height="4000" width="5333" msid="95588233" hostid="261"></div>"She tracked Mac from beginning to end, and that exceeded my expectations because I didn't have to guide as much as I thought I would have to," he said of Drew's dedication to her character.Right before she and her film crew kicked off production, Drew reunited with her "Grey's" family to shoot the show's 400th episode. The event had coincided with the "Reindeer Games" timetable, so she pushed the start date a few days back. It was worth it. Surrounded by her past, feeling all at once nostalgic and present, the actor had a realization."I just had this really lovely moment of, 'Yes, that was hard four years ago, but I'm so excited to be doing this next thing,'" she remembered. "And I feel really fulfilled and alive in a way that I've never felt before.""Reindeer Games Homecoming" airs on Lifetime on November 17 at 6 p.m. ET and November 19 at 10 p.m. ET and is streaming on the Lifetime app.

From exiting 'Grey's Anatomy' to making TV history, Sarah Drew is moving forward

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Isaiah Washington said on Facebook that some of his "best elementary school teachers" were members of the KKK.</li><li>He also said his "neighbors" in Texas were too, and that he'd play with their children. </li></ul>Former <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-couples-ranked-by-chemistry-merder-japril-calzona-photos-2022-6">"Grey's Anatomy</a>" star Isaiah Washington said in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/1131289208/posts/i-had-some-of-the-best-elementary-school-teachers-and-even-some-neighbors-that-i/10228008623977530/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post on his official Facebook page</a> that some of the "best elementary school teachers" and "neighbors" he grew up with in Houston, Texas, were members of the white supremacist group <a href="https://www.insider.com/kkk-lures-new-members-with-candy-2018-8">the Ku Klux Klan</a>. In the post, shared on Sunday, the actor recalled playing with their kids, though he said clear "boundaries" were set on both sides. For example, Washington said he couldn't drink from those KKK members' outdoor water hoses or come into their homes to eat. Washington's mother, however, would let kids of <a href="https://www.insider.com/black-teen-tased-by-group-dressed-in-kkk-costumes-attorney-2021-11">KKK members</a> eat inside her house and "drink from our vintage JFK water glasses."<a href="https://www.insider.com/p-valley-star-brandee-evans-sex-scene-coach-wife-farrah-2022-7">The "P-Valley" star</a> went on to say that he wondered if some of the children he played with were "vigorously" supporting his acting career today because he showed them "love and respect as a true Texan and a true American," even when their parents refused to let the children do the same for him in public. Insider has reached out to Washington for comment. <div type="image" title="Isaiah Washington" height="1247" width="1663" msid="99917969" hostid="261"></div>Washington played Dr. Preston Burke on "Grey's Anatomy" from 2005 to 2007 before he was fired from the show for referring to his costar T.R Knight, <a href="https://people.com/celebrity/exclusive-greys-anatomy-star-t-r-knight-confirms-hes-gay/">who later came out as gay</a>, with a homophobic slur during a physical altercation on set. Since being fired from the show, Washington has made several claims about the hit series and his co-stars. According to Lynette Rice's book, <a href="https://www.insider.com/tr-knight-family-isaiah-washington-homophobic-slur-2021-10">"How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy,"</a> Washington had originally been considered for the role of Dr. Derek Shepherd opposite Ellen Pompeo's Dr. Meredith Grey, <a href="https://www.insider.com/isaiah-washington-ellen-pompeo-uncomfortable-mcdreamy-casting-greys-anatomy-2021-9">but said Pompeo felt "uncomfortable"</a> with having him as a love interest because her then-boyfriend (now husband) Chris Ivery was also a Black man.As Pompeo explained to the New York Post in 2013, "You know they wanted Isaiah Washington to be my boyfriend. Shonda really wanted to put a Black man in the mix. I didn't think they were really going to put an interracial couple on the show and I didn't want him. It was too close to home."<div type="image" title="t.r. knight/isaiah washington" height="600" width="800" msid="99917970" hostid="261"></div>In <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-isaiah-washington-ellen-pompeo-patrick-dempsey-allegations-2021-10">an October 2021 appearance on "The Tavis Smiley Show,"</a> Washington called Patrick Dempsey a "total tyrant" and claimed that Pompeo accepted "$5 million dollars under the table" to keep quiet about Dempsey's "toxic and nasty" behavior on set. In 2022, he also spoke out about his "Romeo Must Die" co-star, the late singer Aaliyah. In an interview with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBKp3jpuFkE">Vlad TV</a>, Washington said that the pop star, who married R. Kelly when she was 15 and Kelly was 27, was "in control of the situation even at her age.""She was 15 going on 30, so she was in control of that whole situation," he said. "I don't judge her, but she was very smart and very mature and very in control of her situation. I don't believe one minute that Aaliyah was made to do anything that Aaliyah didn't want to do."Washington announced his <a href="https://twitter.com/IWashington/status/1630696635587231744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1630696635587231744%7Ctwgr%5Ef741aa2bcefd9ae8a35d3526422d0d81b876d957%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.insider.com%2Fisaiah-washington-launches-gofundme-for-movie-after-announcing-acting-retirement-2023-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intention to retire from acting</a> in early 2023, only to <a href="https://www.insider.com/isaiah-washington-launches-gofundme-for-movie-after-announcing-acting-retirement-2023-3">launch a GoFundMe page</a> to try and crowdfund a million-dollar movie project days later.

Former 'Grey's Anatomy' star Isaiah Washington said he grew up with members of the KKK: 'I showed them love and respect'

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="13899796" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="elisabeth-finch" source="Orion">Elisabeth Finch</keyword> left "<keyword id="11995413" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="greys-anatomy" source="Orion">Grey's Anatomy</keyword>" in March 2022 after questions arose about her medical history.</li><li>Reports earlier that month said Finch faked <keyword id="6355291" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cancer" source="Orion">cancer</keyword>, a kidney transplant, and PTSD.</li></ul>"Grey's Anatomy" writer Elisabeth Finch was reportedly placed on "administrative leave" following "serious concerns" within <keyword id="11995416" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="shonda-rhimes" source="Orion">Shonda Rhimes</keyword>' production company Shondaland that "parts of Finch's life story she shared in the writers' room and with the press were made up," the <keyword id="11896019" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="entertainment" source="Orion">entertainment</keyword> newsletter <a href="https://theankler.com/p/shocker-disney-investigating-greys?s=r">The Ankler wrote</a> earlier this year.According to The Ankler and personal essays Finch had published with <a href="https://www.shondaland.com/live/body/a12244867/redefining-brave/">publications such as Shondaland.com</a> and <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/greys-anatomy-producer-why-i-wrote-my-cancer-an-episode-guest-column-1181487/">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, Finch had survived cancer, lost a kidney and part of a leg, and had to abort a fetus while undergoing chemotherapy.Finch's lawyer, Andrew Brettler, told Insider in a statement that she was never placed on leave. Yet two weeks after the initial report that Disney was expected to begin an internal investigation into the claims of Finch's faked ailments, <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/greys-anatomy-writer-elisabeth-finch-leave-of-absence-medical-history-1235220751/">the writer took a leave of absence.</a>"I will always remain one of 'Grey's Anatomy's biggest fans. I loved the show from day one and had the honor to write for it since season 11," Finch said in part in a statement to Insider, sent by her lawyer in April. <a href="https://www.insider.com/facts-about-greys-anatomy-2018-8">"'Grey's Anatomy' is one big-hearted, brilliant family, "</a> it continued. "As hard as it is to take some time away right now, I know it is more important that I focus on my own family and my health."When reached for comment by Insider in April, Shondaland, which produces "Grey's Anatomy," said in a statement, "Only Elisabeth can speak to her personal story." ABC declined to comment in April when reached by Insider.It reads like the end of the story, but it's just the beginning. Because on May 2, the world got to read Finch's estranged wife's side of the story in Vanity Fair, and it's stranger than the fiction Finch wrote on <keyword id="11898468" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="tv" source="Orion">TV</keyword>.Brettler told Vanity Fair that some of Beyer's claims are untrue. He told the magazine Beyer was "neither 'reliable' nor 'unbiased'" since Finch and Beyer are currently going through a "highly contentious divorce," according to Brettler.Shondaland did not have further comment when reached in May after the release of the Vanity Fair articles, and ABC didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment in May.Here's everything we know about the latest <a href="https://www.insider.com/patrick-dempsey-terrorizing-set-before-greys-anatomy-exit-report-2021-9">scandal surrounding "Grey's Anatomy."</a><h2>Finch became a writer and producer on 'Grey's Anatomy' in 2014 for season 11</h2><div type="image" title="Elisabeth Finch on set of &quot;Grey's Anatomy.&quot;" height="1350" width="1800" msid="91495261" hostid="261"></div>According to <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/greys-anatomy-elisabeth-finch-truth-lies">Vanity Fair</a>, Finch caught Shondaland's attention in 2014 because of a now-deleted essay she wrote for Elle about living and <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/sarcoma/chondrosarcoma">working with chondrosarcoma</a>, a rare form of bone cancer that is usually fatal. Finch wrote in the essay that she continued working <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-vampire-diaries-fun-facts-things-to-know">on the set of "The Vampire Diaries," </a>a show that follows the dangerous lives and complicated romances of vampires and other supernatural creatures, against a doctor's advice after her diagnosis. "I watched the producers' cuts under a fog of Demerol, punched up dialogue about vampire-werewolf hybrids with a shunt in my spine," her essay read, per Vanity Fair. "Yes, I was down 17 pounds, bald, vomiting relentlessly, but I was still living alone. Still stubborn as hell."A development executive at Shondaland noticed the essay and showed it to the then-showrunner of "Grey's Anatomy" as a potential hire for the ABC medical drama's eleventh season. Finch later met with Rhimes herself, who then hired Finch, according to Vanity Fair. Since joining the show as a writer in 2014, Finch has <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2353156/">produced 172 episodes</a> of the hit ABC series and has a writing credit on 13 of them. She's credited with writing <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/greys-anatomy-producer-why-i-wrote-my-cancer-an-episode-guest-column-1181487/">"Anybody Have A Map?," a 2018 "Grey's Anatomy" episode</a> that features Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen) having an operation to treat her aggressive chondrosarcoma. Finch is also the writer of <a href="https://ew.com/recap/greys-anatomy-season-15-episode-19/">"Silent All These Years,"</a> a 2019 episode featuring rape survivors that <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/473216-greys-anatomy-episode-about-sexual-assault-spurs-over-40/">got a lot of press attention</a>. Vanity Fair reported that in February 2022, Finch's estranged wife, Jennifer Beyer, sent an email to Rhimes' personal email account, warning the acclaimed showrunner that Finch was faking her story. Rhimes didn't respond to the message, according to Beyer, so she said she texted the current "Grey's Anatomy" showrunner, Krista Vernoff, and was soon contacted by Disney's human resources department. This seemingly marked the beginning of the end of Finch's time working on "Grey's Anatomy." <h2>According to Vanity Fair, Finch first began speaking about her cancer diagnosis when she was working on 'The Vampire Diaries'</h2><div type="image" title="Elisabeth Finch wearing scrubs." height="1178" width="1571" msid="91495262" hostid="261"></div> Vanity Fair spoke to some of Finch's family members, who said she began to tell them she had cancer around the time she was working on <a href="https://www.insider.com/the-vampire-diaries-cast-then-and-now-photos-2018-8">"The Vampire Diaries."</a> Finch, who grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, told relatives that doctors discovered her bone cancer after an alleged knee replacement surgery."It was devastating," an unnamed cousin, who lives in New Jersey, told the magazine of learning the <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword>. According to Vanity Fair, the cousin said a bald Finch would sometimes visit from Los Angeles while supposedly undergoing chemotherapy, looking "sick." Finch also had a bandage on her body where a chemo port would be, according to her cousin.In part two of <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/greys-anatomy-elisabeth-finch-jennifer-beyer">Vanity Fair's report</a>, Beyer, who's also a nurse, told the magazine that Finch doesn't have a port scar. She also said Finch had full eyelashes and eyebrows, which is strange <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/an-artist-specializes-in-henna-crowns-for-chemo-patients-2017-4">because chemo patients</a> lose hair. Finch still said she had cancer in 2014 when she got <a href="https://www.insider.com/every-greys-anatomy-character-ranked-by-episodes-2020-11">the job on "Grey's Anatomy.</a>" Other staffers on the show told Vanity Fair that Finch's diagnosis afforded her privileges at work, like extra time to write episodes. She also took time off to supposedly make visits to the Mayo Clinic for cancer treatment. Friends said that even though they drove her there, she never wanted them to come inside. There were two other cancer survivors in the "Grey's Anatomy" writers' room, but an unnamed writer told Vanity Fair that those people stopped feeling comfortable talking about their cancer experiences because Finch would always become emotional during those conversations if anyone questioned or contradicted her. Vanity Fair reported that when confronted by a suspicious Beyer toward the end of their relationship, "Finch 'admitted' that she had at one time had cancer, but that she got chemo, and recovered."<h2>Finch's story of abuse mirrors her estranged wife's </h2><div type="image" title="Elisabeth Finch." height="2411" width="3214" msid="91495263" hostid="261"></div>Beyer and Finch met at a treatment facility in Topeka, Kansas, in 2019, Vanity Fair reported. Beyer told writer Evgenia Peretz she was there to treat the psychological symptoms of an abusive marriage.Finch entered the center about six months into Beyer's stay under the pseudonym "Jo," the same name of the "Grey's Anatomy" character she was researching for a storyline. She told residents she was also <a href="https://www.insider.com/do-i-have-ptsd">there to treat PTSD,</a> according to the magazine. The women became close and therapists allowed them to room together even though they were in the same process group, according to Beyer. Soon, Finch's abuse story began to mirror Beyer's. When Beyer's husband threatened to come and find her, with the facility increasing security as a result, suddenly Finch said her brother Eric (whom she said abused her as a child) was threatening to find her, too. Beyer said she saw a letter Finch said Eric wrote but didn't read it herself. After treatment, Finch and Beyer's relationship deepened thanks to visits with each other. On one of Beyer's trips to Los Angeles, she got a call from the Kansas Department of Children and Families informing her that her husband had committed suicide, Beyer told Vanity Fair. According to Vanity Fair, two weeks later, without Beyer's knowledge, Finch sent an email to her "<a href="https://www.insider.com/ellen-pompeo-greys-anatomy-watched-a-handful-of-episodes-2022-2">Grey's Anatomy" coworkers</a>. "I've gone bc my brother <a href="https://www.insider.com/my-little-sister-died-by-suicide-im-talking-about-it-2022-5">died by suicide</a>. He was on life support for a short while but ultimately did not survive," it read, according to the publication. "I say this not bc I need or want anything from anyone, I'm not a delicate flower or whatever, I just want people to know I'm still here, still part of the team."However, Finch's brother is still alive and currently works as a doctor, per Vanity Fair. He declined to comment when reached by Vanity Fair regarding their report on Finch. Insider reached out to Eric but didn't get a response.<h2>Finch once said she cleaned up a friend's remains from the floor of a synagogue after a mass shooting</h2><div type="image" title="Elisabeth R. Finch and Debbie Allen" height="2000" width="2666" msid="91495265" hostid="261"></div>Vanity Fair reported that Finch, who grew up in a middle-class Jewish family, had tweeted about being the victim of a hate crime and also once told coworkers and family she suffered PTSD related to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/us/active-shooter-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting.html">mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh</a>, during which 11 people were killed.Finch, who went to college in Pittsburgh, told people, including Beyer, that one of her friends died in the attack. She said she went to the site of the tragedy in the aftermath to help "clean up the remains of her friend's body from the synagogue floor," the article reported, in accordance with Jewish tradition."Grey's Anatomy" writers told Vanity Fair that they had to be even more mindful of what they said around Finch after the shooting because even phrases like "shot down" would cause her to wince "dramatically."Finch said her experience at the shooting site caused <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-ptsd-can-affect-your-body-2020-6">her alleged PTSD</a>, which is why she went on leave and sought treatment at the center in Topeka, where she met Beyer.Vanity Fair contacted the two Chevra Kadisha burial societies that coordinated cleaning up the synagogue and found that "nobody named Elisabeth Finch was involved." When Insider reached out to New Community Chevra Kadisha in May, a coordinator said that only men were present from their organization while the second burial society, Pittsburgh's Orthodox chevra kadisha, did not immediately respond.<h2>Finch said that <keyword id="12003357" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="anna-paquin" source="Orion">Anna Paquin</keyword> gave her a kidney </h2><div type="image" title="Writers Kate Barnow (L) and Elisabeth Finch attend The Paley Center for Media's &quot;Inside the Writers Room: True Blood&quot; on October 28, 2009." height="590" width="786" msid="91495268" hostid="261"></div>One of Finch's first jobs in Hollywood was acting as an assistant to Alan Ball, the <a href="https://www.insider.com/true-blood-cast-then-and-now-2018-9">creator of "True Blood." </a>So, when she said she was diagnosed with a rare cancer that caused other alleged <a href="https://www.insider.com/signs-of-kidney-problem-2019-4">health issues like kidney failure</a>, Finch told her <a href="https://www.insider.com/anna-paquin-hugh-jackman-put-through-wringer-x-men-wolverine-2021-6">friend Anna Paquin</a>, the star of HBO's hit vampire series that ran from 2008 to 2014.According to Finch, Paquin donated a kidney to her.Vanity Fair confirmed via an unnamed source that Paquin does not "have anything to do with Finch's kidneys." Representatives for Paquin didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. "Two hospital hangouts. Nearly two weeks of hell. But FINNNALLLLY…One happy, healthy kidney. Thanks for all the [heart emoji]," she wrote on Facebook, according to Vanity Fair.Later when they were engaged, Beyer told VF that Finch went to the hospital with pain that she said was "probably kidney stones" in her one good kidney. "Looking squarely at Beyer, the doctor said, 'Her kidneys look fine,' stressing the plural," the magazine added of the experience. <h2>Finch's future on the show remains in question </h2>"Grey's Anatomy" was renewed for <a href="https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/greys-anatomy-renewed-season-19-ellen-pompeo-1235146757/">a historic season 19</a> back in January.Finch remains on personal leave as of May, and her future on the show remains unknown. The last writing credit she has on the show is for <a href="https://www.insider.com/sarah-drew-greys-anatomy-return-japril-endgame-interview-2021-5">season 17 episode 14 titled "Look Up Child"</a> in which Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams) visits his father Robert (Eric Roberts) and his ex-wife April Kepner (Sarah Drew) to get clarity about his future before moving to Boston with April and their daughter Harriet.

A 'Grey's Anatomy' writer recently left the show after allegedly faking cancer. Here's everything we know about the scandal.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"<keyword id="11995413" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="greys-anatomy" source="Orion">Grey's Anatomy</keyword>" aired a two-part hospital shooting episode for its season six finale.</li><li>"I had nightmares and panic attacks while we were shooting," star <keyword id="12020197" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sarah-drew" source="Orion">Sarah Drew</keyword> said in a new book.</li></ul>"Grey's Anatomy" actor Sarah Drew was just finishing her first season on the hit medical drama in 2010 when the show filmed one of its most terrifying finales: season six's hospital shooting event, "Sanctuary" and "Death and All His Friends." In the two-part episode, a grieving widower named Gary Clark (Michael O'Neill) comes into the hospital with a loaded gun, seeking revenge on Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) and a group of doctors who he blames for his wife's death. Drew's character, April Kepner, is on the team that Clark targets, and she has two particularly traumatizing scenes in the finale. First, April slips on blood and finds her friend Reed's (Nora Zehetner) dead body in a medical supply closet. Then, when she comes face-to-face with Clark in the hospital hallway, she has to fight for her life at gunpoint by telling him intimate details of her life. "No one's loved me yet. Please, please!" April begs in the scene. So, Clark turns his gun on Derek once again and wounds him with a near-fatal shot. <div type="image" title="Ellen Pompeo and Sarah Drew" height="1500" width="2000" msid="87649326" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-WwYEAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT90&amp;lpg=PT90&amp;dq=I+had+nightmares+and+panic+attacks+when+we+were+shooting+that+even+for+several+days+afterward+sarah+drew&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=gzVnWC1S3u&amp;sig=ACfU3U2q9wtK6YZ_ixoKAkF0WC0UjngoJg&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjA9dmRmIL0AhWDTN8KHRM-DXYQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&amp;q=I%20had%20nightmares%20and%20panic%20attacks%20when%20we%20were%20shooting%20that%20even%20for%20several%20days%20afterward%20sarah%20drew&amp;f=false0days%20afterward%20sarah%20drew&amp;f=false">Drew revealed just how psychologically traumatizing</a> the filming experience was for her in the new tell-all book <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-ellen-pompeo-cut-shonda-rhimes-off-while-speaking-racism-2021-9">"How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy</a>" by <keyword id="11896019" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="entertainment" source="Orion">Entertainment</keyword> Weekly's editor at large, Lynette Rice."I had <a href="https://www.insider.com/ellen-pompeo-fight-greys-anatomy-director-stunt-2021-9">nightmares and panic attacks</a> while we were shooting that, even for several days after we finished," she said."It was very intense and scary and hard to go to those places, and then leave them at the door and then come home and be like, 'I'm fine, I'm fine. Nobody's trying to kill me, I didn't just watch my best friend die, I didn't just get covered in her blood," she continued.Drew explained that, from her perspective, when an actor has to put themselves <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-sarah-drew-wrote-letter-change-april-ending-2021-9">in the mindset to film</a> trauma it "does something to your body because your body doesn't know that it's not happening" in real life.<div type="image" title="Michael O'Neill, Patrick Dempsey, Sarah Drew" height="2033" width="2712" msid="87649327" hostid="261"></div>According to the book, O'Neill said that he almost didn't take the part of the shooter because someone in his family had been murdered. "I know what happens to families when someone gets cut down," he said. "You don't ever really recover from it."O'Neill also recalled to Rice how he told "Grey's Anatomy" creator and then-showrunner <keyword id="11995416" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="shonda-rhimes" source="Orion">Shonda Rhimes</keyword> "this frightens me" regarding the troubling scenes.According to O'Neill, Rhimes told him "it frightens me, too." He said his wife eventually convinced him to take the part and he did so under the conditions that his character "didn't point a gun at a child and that the character ends his life in the hospital." <a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Save-Life-Inside-Anatomy/dp/1250272009">"How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy" is out now.</a>

'Grey's Anatomy' star Sarah Drew revealed she had 'nightmares and panic attacks' filming the hospital shooting episodes, according to a new book

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"Grey's Anatomy" star Jake Borelli reflected on his most important storylines on the show so far. </li><li>He also revealed how the cast said goodbye to Ellen Pompeo while filming her last episode as a series regular. </li></ul>Jake Borelli's <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-jake-borelli-interview-teases-heart-racing-finale-2022-4">"Grey's Anatomy" character Dr. Levi Schmitt</a> has come a long way since his early days at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital when he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQCowCEu2_c&amp;ab_channel=CamillaLNews" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped his glasses onto a patient's intestines</a> during surgery. This season — the show's 19th — he's the overworked chief resident in charge of the new class of interns now that Ellen Pompeo's character Meredith Grey has exited. He knows his sexuality now, and since his ex-boyfriend Nico Kim (Alex Landi) has gone off to be a doctor for the Seattle Mariners, Levi has found a new love interest in a traveling nurse named Carlos (Calvin Seabrooks).Borelli recently spoke with Insider about whether there's hope for Nico and Levi's relationship, how the cast said goodbye (for now) to Pompeo, and if fans can expect any beloved former cast members to return in season 19.<h2>On Levi's romantic future and his most impactful storylines: </h2><div type="image" title="Alex Landi and Jake Borelli on &quot;Grey's Anatomy.&quot;" height="2000" width="2666" msid="99148504" hostid="261"></div>I know <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-couples-ranked-by-chemistry-merder-japril-calzona-photos-2022-6">Nico and Levi </a>have broken up, but I can't believe that Nico will be away from Grey Sloan forever. What can you tell me about this new love triangle Levi is in the middle of now that he's met Carlos? Well, I don't know if it's a full-on triangle because Nico has sort of been out of the picture for so long. I guess it's a big question mark whether he is still around in Seattle. I know Link's (Chris Carmack) character said that he's traveling around with the Mariners, so we'll see if he pops back in. But right now, we are definitely canoodling with the traveling nurse Carlos, who I love."Grey's" has told a few abortion stories this season in the wake of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-abortion-decision-final-ruling-scotus-roe-v-wade-2022-6">Roe vs. Wade being overturned</a>. Your character was involved in a storyline featuring a character who had a medical abortion. Can you reflect on what it feels like to be a part of such culturally important conversations on TV?I think people need these stories to show how different and complex the situation is. At the beginning of the season, we talked so much as a group about the stories that we wanted to tell surrounding abortion and medical abortions, especially. And we even changed the color of the OB scrubs from pink to black because this is a warrior moment. It's a culture war. And I think personally, I think we do need to fight for autonomy with your body and the right to choose.Speaking of culturally important stories, in the season 18 finale, during Grey Sloan's blood shortage, Levi brings awareness to the fact that men who have sex with men and their partners can't currently donate blood under <a href="https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/how-to-donate/eligibility-requirements/lgbtq-donors.html">FDA guidelines</a> unless they abstain from sex for three months. As a gay man, what did that plot mean to you? <div type="image" title="Jake Borelli wearing a blue suit." height="2697" width="3596" msid="99148507" hostid="261"></div>I've been pitching the concept for years because my character started out with the nickname Blood Bank. He literally gave his blood during a surgery to save a patient and was almost — not forced to — but it was thrust upon him. And then now here we are a couple of years later, he's not allowed to give blood simply because he's queer. It's not based in any sort of science we have around blood testing and around blood donation. It's simply an artifact of this homophobic AIDS epidemic.I wish we would've talked about it more at the beginning of this season because, frankly, the blood ban didn't go away. And I think there's still room to talk about it again. But even that storyline especially was hard for me because I wanted to get it right so badly because the ban itself changed from a one-year abstinence policy where queer men had to abstain from sex for one year before they could donate blood. And during the pandemic, it changed to three months because <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-jake-borelli-restrictive-lgbtq-laws-2023-3">they needed our blood</a>. It's so hypocritical, and so, it pisses me off so much.<h2>On Ellen Pompeo's exit and the future of 'Grey's':</h2><div type="image" title="Ellen Pompeo and Jake Borelli on &quot;Grey's Anatomy.&quot;" height="1998" width="2664" msid="99148511" hostid="261"></div>When Ellen Pompeo shot her last scene as a series regular, did the cast and crew throw a party for her or give her a send-off?The last scene that I shot with her was coincidentally the cheers-ing her off with all the champagne in the lobby. That was with most of the cast too. Linda Klein is our main medical advisor, and she was there in the shot too, playing Nurse Linda. She was standing right next to me, and we had shot from all these different angles, and then all of a sudden, there was a camera on the left and a camera on the right, both looking at Ellen.And I turned to Linda, and I was like, "Linda, what are we even shooting?" And she was like, "Shh, don't worry about it." And then they call action, Ellen comes out to start doing her thing. It was a big surprise moment for all of us. And Debbie Allen came out, and Krista Vernoff came out, and there was a singer there who, like, sang this fun parody song. So we had a big celebration then.<div type="image" title="Ellen Pompeo's final episode of &quot;Grey's Anatomy&quot; as a series regular aired in season 19." height="1687" width="2250" msid="99148512" hostid="261"></div>What would you say to people who are hesitant to continue watching or don't think <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-shouldnt-try-surviving-without-ellen-pompeo-2023-2">"Grey's" can go on without Ellen</a>? I would say there are so many characters that I've loved for years and years being a fan of the show, who we still get to see come back. And I feel like it would be a disservice to let that go. And "Grey's" has always been a revolving door of people leaving and frankly, people coming back. That's what the story is about to me more than anything now. It's seeing how these doctors come and go from this hospital and live their lives and do their work, and you need young people to teach. And you need OG badass surgeons to learn from, and that is what "Grey's" is.Since we're talking about people leaving and people returning, I think Catherine Fox [Debbie Allen] is going to die this season because her cancer is back, which makes me sad. But does that mean her son Jackson Avery [Jesse Williams] and his partner April Kepner [Sarah Drew] will return to say goodbye? Hypothetically, if Catherine Fox dies, then, of course, <a href="https://www.insider.com/greys-anatomy-jackson-april-japril-complete-relationship-timeline-2022-5">Jackson Avery and April Kepner</a> would come back, but that's if. Her son and her daughter-in-law would have to come back.<div type="image" title="Jesse Williams and Sarah Drew." height="1440" width="1920" msid="99148516" hostid="261"></div>Last time we talked, you teased the season 18 finale pretty well. Do you know anything about it yet?We have a handful of episodes to film before we even start talking about the finale. And to be honest, we've sort of all been kept in the dark too, because it really does feel like a pilot again. I'm telling you. I think Catherine Fox is going to die.That's what you think the finale's going to be? Actually...You know what? That is pretty juicy. I truly don't know. And so now I'm just running the numbers as a fan with you right now. I'm like, "Huh."This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. "Grey's Anatomy" airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on ABC.

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