With her trademark candor, Loretta Devine told Entertainment Weekly in 2012 that she was initially insulted when she was cast on Grey's Anatomy as a character with Alzheimer's disease. "Did I snap my head back a little bit? Yes. I was like, God, how old am I? I'm not old enough for this!" she recalled with a laugh. "You feel like, Couldn't they wait another 10 or 20 years before I'm playing a person with Alzheimer's?" However, the Broadway vet acknowledged that once she read up on the condition, it became clear that it often affects younger people, too.
Although Devine expressed hope that her character could have a happy ending (aww), she was proud of the work, overall. "You never know what life is going to do for you," she said of Adele's "heartbreaking" storyline, adding that the ongoing Emmys recognition was "so nice" to receive, because "the character that I'm playing on Grey's is such a hard character."
That said, Devine was understandably disappointed with how her time on the hit medical drama wrapped up. "That's why you just have to keep going," the Grey's Anatomy alum wisely reasoned with PeopleTV. "When you go down, you've got to just get right back up and keep moving. Because you can't understand why stuff happens in this business."
