9 Celebrities Who Walked Out On Popular Shows To Good And Bad Results For Their Career

Katherine Heigl

If there’s anything you can learn from Katherine Heigl, it’s that you shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds you. Despite having won an Emmy Award for her role as Izzie Stevens on Grey’s Anatomy, by the 2008-2009 season, she was ready to go and asking for a lighter work schedule. To make things more dramatic, she started talking crap about the show’s writers. Heigl took her name off of the list for Emmy contention in 2008, blaming show writers: “I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention. In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials.”

Though she went on to stay on the show until 2010, she made an agreement with Shonda Rhimes to be released from her contract as soon as possible after not showing up to work that year. She has since tried to focus on film, but unfortunately, she hasn’t had a box office winner since 2007’s Knocked Up, which she did while still on Grey’s. Ironically, she went on to call the popular movie a little “sexist”…