Cristina Yang, Preston Burke’s Fortunately Ever After In Gray’s Anatomy: How Sandra Oh Obtained Isaiah Washington Again On Present Earlier than Her Exit

Washington, nonetheless made a quick return in Season 10, a lot to the delight of followers. He reprised his character as Yang’s mentor and ex, to assist along with her character’s departure.

The 61-year-old lately revealed how his former co-star Sandra Oh orchestrated his temporary comeback. In a social media publish, Washington wrote, “Sandra Oh was the important thing to getting me to come back again in 2014. She refused to go away the present with out my return and he or she gained that battle. I like me some Sandra Oh!”

Isaiah Washington’s controversy

For the unversed, ABC refused to resume Washington’s contract for the present in 2007, after he received into an on-set altercation with Patrick Dempsey, who performed Dr. Derek Shepherd, in 2006. The purpose of battle was a disagreement that turned bodily with Washington utilizing homophobic slur referring to T.R. Knight (Dr. George O’Malley). Although Knight had not come out at the moment, he did settle for being a homosexual ultimately.

Regardless of Washington’s public apology, his remark on the purple carpet of Golden Globe Awards in 2007 pressured ABC to finally take away him from the present, discontinuing his character’s storyline, with Burke leaving Yang on the altar in Season 3, and departing from her life.

Cristina Yang and Preston Burke

Washington returned in Gray’s Anatomy Season 10 with a plotline of providing Dr. Yang a whole cardiothoracic hospital in Switzerland. His character tells Yang that he liked her an excessive amount of to be along with her, saying their relationship was “all consuming.”

This ensured an ideal closure to not simply Yang amid Sandra Oh’s years of battle to maintain her character related, it additionally left followers of the couple satiated. It marked Sandra’s exit from Gray’s Anatomy for good.