I hope that title isn’t too much of a spoiler, but since everyone else is reporting it like this there’s almost no point of trying to skirt around it. If you’re a Grey’s fan and would rather not know the details you can return to the main page and skip this story.

The story is that Heigl was supposed to return to the set of Grey’s on March 1, which was when her maternity leave was scheduled to end. (Heigl took time off when she adopted a special needs baby, Naleigh, from South Korea.) Heigl didn’t come back for whatever reason, probably because she’s an entitled twit and didn’t think she should show up if no one was throwing her a party. Some brief background: last July she complained bitterly about her first day on set to Letterman, which the president of ABC called “unfortunate,” and later took a five week leave of absence. (There’s more, but I’m not going to get all that.) When she came back briefly after adopting Naleigh, the cast and crew supposedly found her tolerable, but that doesn’t seem to have been enough for her to work out her differences with producers. Sources say that Heigl is off Grey’s for good and probably won’t even shoot additional episodes:

Katherine Heigl may be getting ready to check out, at last, from Grey’s Anatomy.

Citing sources, Entertainment Weekly reports that the ABC show’s creator, Shonda Rimes, has agreed to release Heigl from her contract; a final exit agreement still needs to be worked out.

Heigl had been on leave from the hit show while she tended to her film career as well as her newly- adopted daughter, Naleigh, but was scheduled to resume shooting episodes March 1.

EW.com reports the actress never appeared at the studio on or after that date , and she may end up not shooting any additional episodes. An ABC rep declined to comment.

The rising star’s relationship with the series has been increasingly bumpy over the years. In 2008, Heigl pulled herself out of the running for the Emmys, complaining that that she wasn’t given any “material…to warrant a nomination.”

[From US Weekly]

For your Grey’s fans that made it this far – will this dramatically change your favorite show? Were you expecting Heigl’s character Izzy to be written off anyway? From what I understand the character had a brain tumor so it’s like they were just preparing to get rid of her. I bet a lot of people are relieved. Now Heigl can concentrate on making terrible romcoms, as if we don’t have enough of those already.