Isaiah Washington says T.R. Knight should have been fired instead
Apparently Isaiah Washington doesn’t know when it’s better to keep his mouth shut. His contract wasn’t renewed, so he wasn’t “fired”. But with most of the viewing public siding with T.R. Knight in the whole T.R. versus Isaiah Washington scandal, you’d think Isaiah would be smarter than to come out with guns blazing and saying that they really should have fired T.R. Knight instead of him. Pul-eeeze.
In his most explicit interview yet regarding his firing from Grey’s Anatomy, the former Dr. Preston Burke insists, “They fired the wrong guy.”
“I have to clear my name. I’ll start from the beginning. I’m telling everything. So here’s the truth,” Washington tells his hometown newspaper, the Houston Chronicle, in Friday’s edition.
The truth, as Washington sees it, is that he was made the patsy and costar T.R. Knight should have been fired.
Washington claims that the much reported on-set argument between himself and costar Patrick Dempsey that supposedly ended with Washington referring to Knight as a “faggot” was nothing more than “a lie.”
But wait, there is more. He decides to attack T.R. Knight again, leaving no doubt that Isaiah will find it extremely hard to get any work in a town where no one will want to work with him after this whole incident.
To the Chronicle, Washington says he believed Knight’s comments were a calculated move.
“I feel all of this was about him getting a raise and getting his character to stop being perceived as a dopey, kooky kind of character,” Washington says in an audio clip posted on the newspaper’s Website. “He perceives himself as a leading man. That’s why you could see the change this past season. That was his whole impetus behind this. And I was used and I was exploited…to raise T.R.’s profile. I may be wrong, but that’s how I feel about it.”
Well, if there was even the tiniest chance that Isaiah might have been brought back to the show at a later date when the whole brouhaha was mostly forgotten, his chances just went sailing out the window.
I am so sick of Isaiah’s poor-old-me routine even before his latest cranky whining. I will be happy if I never see his face on the big or little screen again.
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