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Spoiler alert! The following contains spoilers for Grey s Anatomy Season 17, Episode 14, Look Up Child, so if you haven t watched yet, you might want to stop reading now.
Grey s Anatomy is about to lose another major character. The May 6 episode of
Grey s Anatomy, called Look Up Child, aired as news broke that
Jesse Williams will be leaving the longtime ABC drama after 12 years.
Confirmation of Jesse Williams departure came courtesy of THR as the episode was airing, and the episode set up the departure nicely. The episode showed
Jackson Avery visiting his father at the bar where he works, where he talked about the injustices he s seen over the past year and wanting to spend more time with his daughter Harriet. His father called him out on wanting to walk away from the complications of a doctor s life.
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Grey s Anatomy long-time cast member to leave show I will forever be grateful.
Jesse Williams is saying goodbye to the series after 12 seasons playing Jackson Avery.
At the end of Thursday night s (May 6) episode on ABC in the US, Look Up Child , Jackson s imminent exit was revealed. His final episode will be the season 17 finale, Tradition , airing on May 20. ABC/Bob D AmicoGetty Images
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As first reported by
Deadline, Williams said in a statement: I will forever be grateful for the boundless opportunities provided me by Shonda [Rhimes], the network, studio, fellow castmates, our incredible crew, Krista [Vernoff], Ellen [Pompeo] and Debbie [Allen].
âLook Up Childâ is a Jackson-centric episode, and sure enough, Jesse Williams is the one leaving
Greyâs. His plastic surgeon character is pulling a Callie and moving across the country for an exciting new job.
Richard Cartwright/ABC
Before he leaves, though, he has to check in with two towering figures from his past: ex-wife April Kepner (Sarah Drew), with former
Greyâs star Sarah Drew making her highly publicized return to the show, and estranged father Robert Avery, with Eric Roberts making a surprise reappearance on the ABC drama. (Jacksonâs conversations with April and Robert are artfully intercut in this episode, but weâll recap the episode chronologically, for clarityâs sake!)
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If Ellen Pompeo returns for Grey’s Anatomy Season 18, the cast will look a bit different. Pic credit: ABC
Grey’s Anatomy spoilers like these require a person to be sitting down when they get ready to read about them.
Viewers who tuned in for the new episode on Thursday night likely got an inkling of what’s coming, but there is more to it than Jackson Avery simply seeing April Kepner again.
The episode was a bit disjointed, but that was done on purpose in order to tell two stories at the same time. One of the stories was about Jackson heading out to visit his dad in Montana, and the second one was Jackson visiting April with an important topic to discuss.
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