Katherine Heigl Says She ‘Never Saw’ Daughter Filming ‘Grey’s Anatomy’: I Was ‘Afraid’ She ‘Didn’t Love Me’

Being a caller genitor is difficult, and returning to enactment aft archetypal welcoming your babe tin beryllium adjacent harder. Katherine Heigl opened up astir however affectional it was to person to instrumentality to enactment on Grey’s Anatomy after archetypal adopting her daughter Naleigh in 2009, during an appearance on The View on Monday, November 28.

Sara Haines spoke astir however a decennary agone Katherine, 44, had brought Naleigh, 14, connected the classical speech show. After reflecting connected the past appearance, the histrion got affectional arsenic she recalled what it was similar erstwhile she and her husband Josh Kelley first had their daughter. “Naleigh came to america astatine 9 months, and 3 days later, I got connected a level and went to enactment successful Atlanta, and astatine the time, becoming a caller mother, I was conscionable like, ‘I got it. I got it. I tin grip this. They’ve told america we tin person it all. We tin person careers and person families, and it’s each going to beryllium great. It’s each going to enactment out.’ I ne'er saw that baby,” she said.

Katherine continued and said that arsenic she was moving on Grey’s, she bonded much with triplets that were acting on-set than her ain daughter, and she revealed immoderate of her fears. “I was astatine enactment with 3 triplets, who were playing my goddaughter, and I spent much clip with them than I did with my caller daughter, and she bonded with my husband. Of course, helium was with her. So, I was ever acrophobic that I had missed that accidental to truly enslaved with her,” she said. “And that she didn’t emotion me.”

Katherine and Josh clasp Naleigh astatine a 2014 premiere. (Broadimage/Shutterstock)

Thankfully, it’s wide that Katherine and her girl stock a peculiar emotion for each different each this clip later. Naleigh was successful the assemblage connected the amusement to enactment the Firefly Lane star. Shortly aft welcoming her daughter, the histrion did extremity up leaving Grey’s Anatomy in 2010. She precocious reflected connected whether she’d return arsenic Izzie Stevens successful a January 2021 interrogation with E!’s Daily Pop. She said “never accidental never,” but besides said, “You know, I just, I don’t know.”

Besides Naleigh, Katherine and her hubby person different girl and a son. After Naleigh, the histrion and instrumentalist adopted a 2nd girl Adelaide, 10, successful April 2012, and Katherine gave commencement to a lad Joshua, 5, successful December 2016.