Katherine Heigl is known for speaking her truth, but after letting her walls down during a Variety Actors on Actors interview with Ellen Pompeo, she allegedly went into full freakout mode.

“Katherine Heigl really went there and then was in a huge panic afterwards that she’d said too much,” Variety Editor-at-Large Kate Aurthur claimed during the Thursday, December 11, episode of the “Viall Files” podcast, recounting the 2023 interview between the Grey’s Anatomy costars.

According to Aurthur, her team had to “talk her down” and ease Heigl’s concerns about how open she’d been while discussing her exit from Grey’s and past controversial takes on the entertainment industry.

“Her manager freaked out. She was maybe not going to release the footage,” Aurthur alleged of Heigl’s reaction at the t

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