“The only way to preserve what felt true to me is that Derek was going to have to die in order for that love to remain honest.”
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Four months after Patrick Dempsey's character, Dr. Derek Shepherd, was killed off ABC's Grey's Anatomy, the show's creator Shonda Rhimes addressed the controversial exit.
Rhimes framed it as a foregone conclusion that Dempsey was leaving the show, which left her with a creative choice. "Either Derek was going to walk out on Meredith and leave her, I don't know, high and dry, and what was that going to mean? That was going to suggest that the love was not true and the thing that we had said for 11 years was a lie and that McDreamy wasn't McDreamy, so for me, that was untenable," she said at the 2015 Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills. Meredith and Derek's love had to remain Meredith and Derek's love, so as painful as it was for me as a storyteller, because I never really thought that was going to happen, the only way to preserve what felt true to me is that Derek was going to have to die in order for that love to remain honest."
She continued, "I really couldn't have the idea that he turned out to be a bad guy and walked out on his wife and his kids. To me it felt like that was the only way to make Meredith and Derek's magic remain true and forever frozen in time."
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