WARNING: This put up comprises spoilers from the most recent episode of Gray’s Anatomy!!
A longtime Gray’s Anatomy star is leaving the present… however not eternally!
The ABC medical drama aired it’s 450th episode on Thursday evening (October 16), directed by Kevin McKidd, and it was revealed one character goes away for awhile.
Within the episode, titled “We Constructed This Metropolis,” the staff at Gray Sloan navigates a chaotic first day of surgical rotations amid hospital renovations. In the meantime, Meredith spends time with Amelia.
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Kelly McCreary returned to the present as Dr Maggie Pierce, and revealed that she’s pregnant (she’s having a child on her personal utilizing a donor)!
Her purpose for a return, to assist consolation Amelia as she struggles to manage after the explosion at Gray Sloan, which was brought on by the mom of one in every of her sufferers.
On the finish of the episode, it was revealed that Amelia is definitely going to take a sabbatical to go “wherever my persons are.”
With Amelia happening a sabbatical, this implies we received’t be seeing actress Caterina Scorsone, who turned 44 years previous the identical day the episode aired, on the present for a while this season.
In accordance with Deadline, Caterina‘s break shall be for eight episodes, and she or he received’t return till 2026!
Of Amelia’s non permanent exit, the episode’s author Zoanne Clack shared why she needed to step away.
“She’s realizing that she traded one dependancy for one more, and that was very unsettling for her when she figured that out,” she informed The Wrap of Amelia utilizing work as a crutch. “Often she’s in a position to get again on the horse by means of surgical procedure, however this time, she realized that she’s obtained to seek out the steadiness in her life … She’s obtained to reconnect with the world exterior and simply have that point to heal.”
The author, who has been engaged on the present for many of it’s run, additionally revealed that Amelia will “be again periodically after which for good.”
