Shocking news for any Grey’s Anatomy fan has surfaced: Sandra Oh will leave the hit ABC drama series following the tenth season.
Oh plays the brilliant yet witty Dr. Cristina Yang since the series debuted in 2005 and will call next season her final hurrah, The Hollywood Reporter reveals.
"Creatively, I really feel like I gave it my all, and I feel ready to let her go," an emotional Oh tells THR. "It's such an interesting thing to play a character for so long and to actually get the sense that she wants to be let go as well. [Cristina] wants to be let go, and I am ready to let her go. We have to start the process, story-wise, for the Grey's writers to think of why she's going to go."
The season finale saw Dr. Yang once again at odds with her husband, Dr. Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd), over their difference in opinions over children.
For Oh, the decision to leave did not come easy.
“I've gone through a lot of therapy over this," Oh confessed. "I started thinking about it because I had to prepare myself. I gave myself two years to emotionally let go. At the end of last season, Shonda took me aside and said, 'What are your thoughts?' I said, 'I'm ready.'"
Oh revealed her decision to call season 10 her last during Tuesday’s table read. She admits that the “decision doesn’t feel real yet.”
So how will the show go on without Meredith Grey’s “twisted sister?”
"It's our intention to have Grey’s on the air for many years to come, with as many of the original cast as possible,” ABC said in statement according to E! News.
It is unclear how Dr. Yang will exit the series.
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