In a 2016 interview, the blonde beauty revealed that she apologized to the show’s creator, Shonda Rhimes, amid the debacle. “I went in because I was really embarrassed,” she recalled on The Howard Stern Show. 

“I shouldn’t have said anything publicly. But at the time, I didn’t think anyone would notice,” she confessed. “I just quietly didn’t submit and then it became a story, and I felt I was obligated to make my statement, and [I should have just said], ‘Shut up, Katie.'”