‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 13 Episode 22: Photos from ‘Leave It Inside’

Tonight's episode was directed by Zetna Fuentes and written by Elizabeth R. Finch. Fuentes is a well-known television director who has been nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on One Live to Live. Her other TV credits include Guiding Light, Pretty Little Liars, The Carrie Diaries, Switched at Birth, The Fosters, Jane the Virgin, iZombie, Forever, How to Get Away with Murder, and Shameless. According to her website, Fuentes began her directing career in New York theater, and worked on a number of Off-Broadway productions, like Safe by Ron Fitzgerald,The Given, and Late Fragment. She was recently elected to be a member of the Alternate Board to the Directors Guild of America's National Board. Elizabeth Finch, who wrote tonight's episode, is best known for her work on HBO's True Blood. In an op-ed piece she wrote for Elle Magazine, Finch discussed her personal life and an incident that forced her to come to terms with the realities of privilege, luck, and abortion. In the piece, she reveals that she is a survivor of a rare bone cancer, and that she spent months searching for effective experimental treatments to get rid of the cancer. The outcome of her chemo, Finch explains, was an "obliterated" immune system, and "shredded" lungs", and eventually, the writer was told she was infertile. She ended up becoming pregnant, anyways. "I was suddenly living my worst-case scenario, after years of believing I already was. I was pregnant. But I couldn't be," she writes. Finch was forced to choose between having the baby and staying healthy. She couldn't have both. "...if I continued with the medication, there was a high likelihood the fetus wouldn't survive, or if it did, it would likely have severe intellectual and physical deficits." Finch knew that in order to stay alive, she had to terminate the pregnancy, and that's exactly what she did. To read the emotional and informative piece, click here. (ABC)

Tonight, actor Matthew Alan will play the boy’s father on Grey’s Anatomy. Fans of the show may recognize Alan– he’s dating Camilla Luddington (Jo Wilson) in real life. The couple just gave birth to their first child together, Hayden, in April. Luddington announced the news in an Instagram post that read, “I am SO excited to FINALLY share with you all news that I’ve managed to keep secret for what seems like forever now… I am pregnant!!!!!! This girl gets to be a ‘cool mom’ ha!” Recently, Alan appeared in the talked-about Netflix series 13 Reasons Why as Seth, who dates Justin’s mom on the show. Other credits on his resume include Lethal Weapon, Scorpion, Longmire, Major Crimes, NCIS: New Orleans, The Night Shift, The Mentalist, and Murder in the First. 

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