Isaiah Washington On “Faggot” Fallout

“After the incident at the Golden Globes everything just fell apart. It literally stopped. Whatever the agenda, whatever the plan was it worked. I lost everything. I couldn’t afford to have an agent. I couldn’t afford to have a publicist for the crisis management to continue. I couldn’t afford to continue. I went from 2 million dollars a year to residual checks. Zero. I couldn’t get another apartment after I turned in my lease for my $3 million home. I had to put it in my wife’s name. No one wanted to touch the name of Isaiah Washington for three years.” – Actor Isaiah Washington, on what happened to his career after he called castmate T.R. Knight a “faggot” on the set of Grey’s Anatomy in 2007.  Knight later said the incident gave him the courage to come out publicly. (Via Towleroad)