21 “Grey’s Anatomy” Behind-The-Scenes Facts That’ll Make You Watch The Show In A Whole New Way

“I knew that would’ve been the best story, but then I realized that I could tell the same story if she was busy trying to keep people alive, and then we were going to have more story for afterwards, in terms of her trauma and stuff” Shonda recalled to EW in 2025.

Speaking about if she changed storylines for characters after writing something at other moments, she added, “There are moments, and there are a lot of times I’ll write something, and I’ll sleep on it and go, ‘That’s not right. That’s not the right story.’ It’s not that I can’t bear it or I don’t want to do it. If it’s not the right story, it’s not the right story.”