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Isaiah Washington Is Never Going To Shut Up

In the weeks since Isaiah Washington was fired from Grey’s Anatomy, the actor has said that T. R. Knight should have been fired instead, and blamed the dismissal on racism. Now he wants the world to know that the whole thing was really Patrick Dempsey’s fault.

Isaiah Washington blamed costar Patrick Dempsey’s repeated tardiness to the Grey’s Anatomy set for the blow-up that resulted in Washington using a homophobic slur.

Interviewed on Larry King Live, Washington said he regretted not confronting Dempsey the first time he was late, so he challenged him the second time. But Dempsey wanted to delay the scene more to wait for Grey’s star Ellen Pompeo, who plays Dempsey’s love interest, before shooting began.

“I said I don’t need Ellen, I can act,” Washington told King. “And that was the moment that sent it into a different zone.”

According to Washington, Dempey erupted. “He became unhinged, sprayed spittle in my face,” said Washington, in his first television interview about the controversy. “I’m asking him why is he screaming at me. … He just becomes irate.”

That’s when Washington said “a lot of things I’m not really proud of.”

“I said several bad words,” he recalled, quoting himself as telling Dempsey: “There’s no way you’re going to treat me like the B-word, the P-word or the F-word.”

He said that the “F-word” was not meant as an anti-gay slur, but implied “somebody who is being weak.” Washington also strongly denied he ever directed the word at gay costar T.R. Knight.

“I am not homophobic – in no way, shape or form,” said Washington.

He’s not homophobic, he just likes to use words with a strongly negative anti-gay association to denote a person of weakness! Boy, everyone sure likes to overreact.

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