In March 2019, Katherine Heigl made headlines when she was cast as the lead in a new CBS
comedy, Our House.
According to Variety, this is the first time the actress has been cast in a television
comedy.
But more than ten years ago, Heigl actually made many, many more headlines because of
her comments about her role in a big screen comedy, comments that, at the time, seemed
like they'd ruined her career overnight.
"GET OUT!"
She was riding high back in 2007.
The former Grey's Anatomy star not only won an Emmy Award for best supporting actress
in a drama series that year, she also began transitioning over to the big screen with
her successful starring turn in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up opposite Seth Rogen.
Unfortunately, this movie-star-in-the-making's rise to the top quickly unraveled following
an infamously ill-fated interview with Vanity Fair the following January.
In a move that still has us scratching our heads, Heigl openly trashed her own work in
the coveted cover story, saying,
Given the beloved flick's undeniable success with audiences and critics, Heigl's candid
comments sparked immediate backlash.
For their part, Apatow and Rogen both chimed in on the matter during a joint interview
on The Howard Stern Show in 2009.
The fan-favorite writer-director admitted he was confused over Heigl's comments, saying,
Meanwhile, Rogen felt Heigl's criticisms were hypocritical considering the portrayal of
women in her follow-up rom-com, The Ugly Truth.
"You have to be two people: the saint and the sinner.
The librarian and the stripper."
Soon after proving her A-lister clout between Knocked Up and Grey's Anatomy, Heigl also
began to burn bridges in TV land after shockingly withdrawing her name from Emmy contention
in 2008.
The actress released a statement at the time, saying,
Understandably, Grey's showrunner Shonda Rhimes was insulted by Heigl's remarks, and later
said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey,
"On some level it stung, and on some level I was not surprised."
"You weren't?"
"No."
"Okay."
"When people say who they are, believe them."
Meanwhile, Heigl and Seth Rogen have since appeared to end their alleged feud.
During an interview with Howard Stern in August 2016, the comedy actor looked back fondly
on his experience working with Heigl, saying,
However, Rogen's compassion for his former co-star's subsequent plight has seemingly
grown over the years, as he continued,
Heigl has since expressed regret for saying anything at all in that fateful Vanity Fair
spread.
In fact, Heigl told Howard Stern in 2016 that she went to therapy to deal with the stress
of her, quote, "difficult" reputation.
She later responded to Rogen's kind remarks while speaking with The Hollywood Reporter,
saying,
Well, if Heigl and Rogen can bury the hatchet, perhaps there's still hope for her reputation
in Tinseltown.
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