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As she departs Grey’s Anatomy after six rocky seasons, the actress admits to this week’s Entertainment Weekly that she made mistakes – and knows that her image has taken a hit as a result. As EW first reported, Heigl is leaving her role as Dr. Izzie Stevens in much the same way she spent her six-year stint on the show: amid controversy. After sitting out more than half of this season, both to make a movie and to bond with the special-needs child she and husband Josh Kelly just adopted, Heigl confirms that she will not be returning to the show and that the January 21st episode was her last one. “I am done,” she says of where she stands with Grey’s Anatomy. “We just finalized our agreement. Everyone had been working really hard to find an amicable and gracious way of letting go and moving on. It’s sad, but it’s what I wanted.”

Portion of the Q&A, running in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly:

EW: How did it come to this?

Heigl: My life changed so dramatically in the last six years. I started a family, and it changed everything for me. It changed my desire to work full-time.

EW: The plan was for you to return to the set on March 1 and stick around through the end of the season. But you didn’t show up on March 1. Why?

Heigl: I went on my family leave and spent three months in Utah and just got to be a mom, and it changed my whole perspective….That was really the turning point for me. So before I was due back, I spoke again to Shonda about wanting to leave. Then I waited at home until I was given the formal okay that I was off the show. The rumors that I refused to return were totally untrue. [In response, ABC issued the following statement: “By mutual agreement, Katherine Heigl has ended her successful run as Dr. Isobel Stevens. The studio wishes her well. Everyone at Grey’s Anatomy is now focused on delivering a shocking season finale and a great show for seasons to come.”]

EW: Would you describe it as an amicable parting?

Heigl: Yeah, I think so. I think it was a little bit shocking for everybody, and a little bit like, “Can’t we find a way to work it out?” And I really wanted to, but at the same time I just felt like I couldn’t sacrifice my relationship with my child. Naleigh and I will always be a little bit complicated. I really had to work on bonding with her because I was obsessed with her, but she could really do without me. [Laughs] It was really hard because she loved Josh so much but she just kind of tolerated me. And I want this child to know that she will forever have me in her corner and I don’t want to disappoint her. And even though I know I’m disappointing the fans, and I know I’m disappointing the writers and my fellow cast members and the crew, I just had to make a choice. I hope I made the right one….It sucks. You wish you could have it all exactly the way you want it. But that’s not life….I had to try to find the courage to move on. And I am sad. And I’m scared. But I felt it was the right thing to do; we just didn’t quite know how to do it appropriately, gracefully, and respectfully to the audience. And I think we all felt it wasn’t respectful to the audience to bring [Izzie] back again and then have her [leave] again. We did it twice this season. It starts to feel a little manipulative.

EW: In 2008, you announced that you decided not to enter yourself in the Emmy race because, you said “I did not feel I was given the material this season to warrant a nomination.” Any regrets about making that statement?

Heigl: Yes. [Laughs]

EW: Why?

Heigl: You know…At the time I thought I was doing the right thing. And I wanted to be clear that I wasn’t snubbing the Emmys. The night I won [in 2007] was the highlight of my career. I just was afraid that if I said, “No comment,” it was going to come off like I couldn’t be bothered to [enter the race]. But really, I could have more gracefully said that without going into a private work matter. It was between me and the writers. I ambushed them, and it wasn’t very nice or fair.

EW: That statement, and the one you made on Letterman, combined with the fact that you’re leaving the show before your contract is up, have fostered a perception of you as an ungrateful diva. Are you aware that this is how some people view you?

Heigl: Yes. The ungrateful thing bothers me the most. And that is my fault. I allowed myself to be perceived that way because I was being whiny and I was griping and because I made these snarky comments. So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I’ve tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I’m just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip. Of course, of course I’m grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life. And to have come this far and to have this kind of success and the freedom and the choices it allows me…The fact that I could even have Naleigh in my life – adoption isn’t cheap – is something to be so unbelievably grateful for. I am disappointed in myself for allowing that perception to exist….There’s nothing more gross than [the idea of] somebody in my position being ungrateful….And I hope that in the coming years I can change people’s minds about that. The six years [I spent on Grey’s] were important years, and I don’t want them to be demeaned. And that’s another reason why I’m so annoyed with myself. I let myself demean something that was actually very beautiful and very important. Like any job, there are ups and downs. But I don’t want to demean what that experience was. I don’t want it to become about this negativity that I’ve spewed.”

EW: There was one time when you were praised for being outspoken, and that’s when you publicly derided Isaiah Washington for using a gay slur at the Golden Globes in 2007…anything you’d like to say about that whole incident?

Heigl: I was recently talking to T.R. [Knight] about this and I said, “I hope I didn’t embarrass you and draw more attention to something that you just wanted to go away.” [Fighting back tears] And he said I could never have embarrassed him and that he was so grateful because no one had ever stood up for him that way before. So that is a proud moment for me [and] I don’t regret it. And I’m just so grateful that my friend doesn’t regret it….I think Isaiah just made a mistake. I think it was a [big] one. But I don’t think he’s evil or horrible or a bad person. I had some great times on set with Isaiah. I don’t wish him ill.

EW: Are you curious about what they’re going to do with Izzie?

Heigl: I am curious. I don’t know what they have in store. But I’d love to come back in and out at some point.

EW: Do you think that’s possible?

Heigl: I don’t know. I’d like to. I’ll give Shonda a call. “Hey, do you need any ideas? I got one!”

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After months of rumors (and intense praying by their unwavering fans), last week, Demi Lovato went public with her budding relationship with long time friend Joe Jonas saying “he’s incredible” and is a “complete gentlemen” who “treats me to the most amazing places.”

Now, Joe Jonas joins Demi Lovato to talk about the relationship that everyone is asking about – the couple talked to Ryan Seacrest exclusively following their performance on “American Idol”.

“We’ve been best friends for the longest time, and now we’re taking the next step and it’s been really fun,” said Joe. “We’ve always figured that one day it would happen but we didn’t feel like it was the right time.”

Demi added, “Being best friends for a while, over time feelings grow, and for me, as much as I wanted to deny it, the feelings were always there.”

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Days after crumpling to the floor during a New Zealand concert, Lady Gaga explained her alarming performance.

“I was so jet lagged,” she told the Australian radio show Kyle and Jackie O on Friday. “I passed out about three times on stage that night but I got myself to the floor. I’d rather die on stage than walk off because I was going to pass out.”

This isn’t the first time that Gaga’s whirlwind rise to superstardom has taken its toll. Back in January, she was forced to cancel several shows, citing exhaustion.

One source fears that the pop star is suffering from the stress of her staggering fame. “She’s on the verge of tipping,” says the source. “She’s only human.”

Still, the singer insisted on the radio show that she’s feeling “completely rejuvenated and excited.”

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Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush are taking a step back from their relationship, and in a recent interview Bush admits to struggling with some aspects of his famous girlfriend’s public life.

During a visit to the Rachael Ray Show last week, Bush was asked how he feels about the cameras following him for Keeping Up with The Kardashians, and said it’s not something he enjoys. “I play football, and most football players are camera shy,” he said during the interview set to air March 29. “We just want to be left alone, we just want to stick to what we do.”

Bush added that while he doesn’t love the cameras, “I do it because it’s important to [Kim].”

On Tuesday a source told People that Kardashian and Bush “are trying to decide what to do right now. Reggie has issues with her busy life and schedule and she can’t give it all up.”

Bush also told Ray that it’s hard for the couple to find time to work on their relationship. “You have to juggle everything,” said the NFL star. “We’re so busy so much: Monday through Saturday we’re putting in 14-hour to 16-hour days. In the off-season I try to spend more time [on the] relationship and doing things that she might like and pleasing her.”

His most recent effort to make Kardashian happy: Bush flew to Miami on Monday to spend the day with his lady. “It was super cool between them,” the source told People.

But, if the two can work out their differences, Kardashian may just get her dream engagement. “Every girl wants a storybook beautiful proposal,” Bush told Ray. “I would obviously do it where it would be extremely meaningful.”

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