VIDEO : Grey?s Anatomy Showrunner Shuts Down Rumors That Cast Exits Were Because Of Ellen Pompeo's N

?Grey?s Anatomy? showrunner Krista Vernnoff is shutting down any suggestion that Sarah Drew and Jessica Capshaw?s exit from the long-running series has anything to do with star Ellen Pompeo?s mammoth salary.
Shortly after news of Drew?s and Capshaw?s exit Thursday morning, Vernoff took to Twitter to say that any suggestion ?that our cast changes are in any way related to Ellen Pompeo?s salary renegotiation is wrong and hurtful and misguided.?
?It smacks of an old, broken, patriarchal notion that women must be pitted against each other and that one woman?s success will be costly to others,? she continued. She added that Pompeo has been an advocate not only for herself, but for her colleagues and women around the world.
The decision to make changes to our cast was a creative one,? Vernoff said definitively. ?The only thing as constant on Grey?s Anatomy as Ellen Pompeo is our penchant for reinvention. It is a part of our success and what keeps the show exciting. We love these actresses and we love these characters and it felt true and right creatively to wrap up their stories. And that is the whole story.