I Wasn’t Attempting To Be A Dick

Katherine Heigl recollects the controversy surrounding the Emmys after allegedly turning down a nomination for her work on Gray’s Anatomy.

The 27 Attire star made an look on Shannen Doherty’s podcast, Let’s Be Clear, when the subject got here up.

“I don’t know any individual aside from you that turns down an Emmy nomination,” Doherty mentioned, which made Heigl leap in and say, “Properly, I didn’t, and everyone retains saying that. I didn’t flip it down.”

“You already know, it’s a must to submit your self. It’s important to submit your work, after which they deliberate after which they resolve in the event that they wish to offer you a nomination,” Heigl defined. “I simply didn’t submit my work that 12 months.”

Information of Heigl not desirous to be thought of for the Emmys was controversial because the actress had received within the Greatest Supporting Actress class the 12 months earlier than. In a assertion from 2008, Heigl mentioned, “I didn’t really feel that I used to be given the fabric this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to take care of the integrity of the academy group, I withdrew my identify from rivalry.”

Sixteen years after the controversy, Heigl regrets making that assertion saying she “ought to have mentioned nothing.”

“I ought to have mentioned, ‘Oh, I forgot [to submit my work],’ as a result of it created such a maelstrom that was so pointless, and it actually was,” she added. “I used to be form of attempting to make a little bit of a snarky level about my materials that 12 months, however I used to be additionally simply not feeling my materials. I didn’t assume I had something that warranted even the consideration for a nomination. I simply wasn’t happy with my work.”

She continued, “I might by no means be so daring or so boastful to show down a nomination. I might take that nomination if it got here my method. I’d be down. However I simply knew there wasn’t something that will actually warrant one which 12 months, and I used to be attempting to be honorable, I assume. I used to be attempting to have some integrity. I wasn’t attempting to be a dick.”

Earlier this 12 months, Heigl attended the Emmys, reuniting along with her former Gray’s Anatomy co-stars to rejoice the ABC sequence.