Meredith's jaw was severely injured and dislocated by a patient with brain damage in a brutal attack, requiring her jaw to be wired shut for weeks while she healed from multiple traumas, including broken bones and temporary deafness, in the memorable Season 12 episode, "The Sound of Silence".
While the filming the episode, in which Pompeo's character, Meredith Grey, is brutally attacked by an epileptic patient, resulting in a broken jaw that had to be wired shut, among other injuries, the actress made an off-script choice that Washington did not appreciate.
She candidly denied having any cosmetic procedures done to her face. Ellen stated, “I don't want to tell myself lies. I don't put anything in my face.” Her statement suggests that she has chosen to age naturally rather than resorting to surgical enhancements.
She says it in a deleted scene, she went on a fishing trip and got horribly sunburned.|Just watched the Superfan cut; She was fishing with some friends...
However, Meredith has been adamant in the past that she's never gone under the knife. In a December 2020 Instagram Story post, Meredith revealed that while she has “not had any plastic surgery on my face,” and she does “like a little bit of Botox.”
Michael, Holly, Andy and Stanley are wearing striped clothes to make them look slimmer (during week 7). We find out Pam's weight in this episode. According to the scale calculations, the entire team weighed 2,336 lbs when Pam was on the scale and 2,210 lbs when she got off. So Pam weighs 126 lbs.
She also asks Dr. Bailey to perform gene mapping on her to finally learn whether she has Alzheimer's genes like her mother. She tests positive for more than one of the genetic markers for the disease. After construction is completed, Meredith moves with Derek into their dream house.
Few noticed this detail… but Cristina was there. She held Meredith's hand during Derek's funeral. No words needed — just love.
Fans frequently skip Grey's Anatomy's musical episode ("Song Beneath the Song"), the "what if" episode ("If/Then"), the documentary episode, episodes with heavy guest stars, the carousel scenes, and sometimes the entire COVID-19 season, due to cringe, discomfort, or disinterest in special format episodes that break the normal narrative.
The rumors that I refused to return were totally untrue." Then, in 2022, she said her departure was also due to her mental health. "I think with 'Grey's' at that time, I didn't feel I had any other choice [but to leave]," Heigl said to SiriusXM host Bevy Smith in an interview.
Meredith spent the majority of Season 17 in a coma due to Covid, and though we got to see her dreamy “death beach” scenes, those felt like closure more than anything else.
Even as Sandra moved on to new projects, their bond endured. They continue to cheer each other on from afar, proving that some friendships aren't bound by a set or a script; they're lifelong.
The saddest Grey's Anatomy deaths often involve core characters like George O'Malley, Lexie Grey, Mark Sloan, and Derek Shepherd, whose losses deeply impacted Meredith and the core group; fan-favorite Andrew DeLuca's tragic stabbing, and patient/love interests like Denny Duquette, Adele Webber, and April's baby Samuel Norbert Avery also rank high due to their emotional storylines and connections to the main cast, often involving suddenness or prolonged suffering.
In Episode "Start Me Up," we meet fifteen-year-old Sarah Cassidy, who has lived her entire life without cheekbones. Sarah suffers from Treacher Collins syndrome, which leaves her orbital floor completely unprotected and vulnerable to severe injury.
As Meredith begins her recovery, she discovers that she has lost both her ability to speak and her hearing as a result of the assault. The episode then shifts to Meredith's perspective, engulfed in silence, as she navigates her post-injury world.
For reasons unknown, Addison is not present at Derek's funeral.
There's no single "saddest" moment, as Grey's Anatomy is famous for heartbreak, but Lexie Grey's death in the plane crash, where she confesses love to Mark Sloan as she dies under debris, and Derek Shepherd's death, where Meredith must make the choice to turn off his life support after his accident, are consistently ranked as the most devastating, alongside the loss of April and Jackson's baby Samuel and George O'Malley's death.
Following Derek's death, William Thorpe (Scott Elrod) is the first person Meredith gets romantically involved with in season 12.
Richard Webber on the medical drama for 22 seasons, revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. In the PSA video, he urged men to get screened for prostate cancer regularly. "One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime," said Pickens Jr. in the video.
And here was the storyline and it's shared in the deleted scenes. Meredith gets severely sunburned.
Meredith would be about 27 when the show starts - 4 years undergrad, then a gap year in Europe, 4 years med school , Ellen Pompeo was like 35, 36 Irl at the time. Patrick Dempsey is 3 years older irl.
Best known for his role on “The Office” as Pam's first fiancé, Roy, David Denman was a warehouse titan on the show at 6 feet 4 inches tall. More recently, the Juilliard graduate has been a big guy on the small screen in shows like “Mare of Easttown” and “The Recruit.”
Fischer said even though she was actually pregnant while filming the episode, she wasn't upset by any of the jokes about pregnancy. In fact, she appreciated that the dialogue deals with some of the insecurities pregnant people may have around their attractiveness at the time.
January Jones became pregnant in between the fourth and fifth season of the series. Instead of writing in a pregnancy for the Betty Francis character, the writers opted to write in a weight gain.