Camilla Luddington Explains Why She Listened to Taylor Swift Throughout Jo’s Home Abuse Story Line

Gray’s Anatomy star Camilla Luddington listened to Taylor Swift whereas filming her character’s home abuse story line.

“I listened to ‘Clear’ whereas I used to be doing [the] episode with Paul, her husband,” Luddington, 40, revealed on her and costar Jessica Capshaw’s “Call It What It Is” podcast on Monday, November 4. “It was like this track that simply obtained me on this place.”

Luddington has starred as Jo Wilson on Gray’s Anatomy since 2012. In 2018, the medical drama confirmed Jo’s estranged husband, Paul (Matthew Morrison), make a return. It was later revealed that Paul was abusive and Jo had managed to flee him years prior.

“Clear” appeared on Swift’s 2014 album, 1989. In a 2015 interview with Elle, the pop star, 34, revealed that she wrote the track in London. “Somebody I used thus far — it hit me that I’d been in the identical metropolis as him for 2 weeks and I hadn’t considered it,” she recalled. “When it did hit me, it was like, ‘Oh, I hope he’s doing effectively.’ And nothing else. … The primary thought that got here to my thoughts was, ‘I’m lastly clear.’”

Luddington, for her half, beforehand praised the Gray’s writers room for dealing with Jo’s previous sensitively.

“For me, the story line ended up being a very long time coming for the character,” Luddington defined to Bustle in January 2018. “[Head writer] Krista Vernoff and the writers have executed a tremendous job simply diving proper into it. It was very painful and uncomfortable to learn after which to play, however I positively felt the burden of you already know, doubtlessly followers of the present watching who had skilled this earlier than.”

Luddington famous to the outlet that she hoped that the story line “would assist educate individuals who have misconceptions about what home violence is or seems to be like.”

Gray’s Anatomy, which has been airing on ABC since 2005, not too long ago made headlines after the discharge of the docuseries Anatomy of Lies in October. The collection detailed the lifetime of Elisabeth Finch, who turned a author on Gray’s Anatomy in 2014 and deceived many individuals, together with by faking most cancers. In 2022, an exposé from Vanity Fair known as her work into query with allegations that she had fabricated each her medical and private historical past. She resigned from Gray’s that very same yr.

After the docuseries’ launch, Luddington broke her silence on what she considered Finch and the entire state of affairs.

“It’s scary when somebody can lie so simply, so confidently, that you just actually can’t inform,” Luddington stated on an episode of her and Capshaw’s podcast final month. “That’s the place it will get very creepy, if I’m being sincere. It’s laborious since you do watch these documentaries on Dateline and also you’re all the time — I’m like this, the place I’m like, ‘I’d’ve identified. I’d know that individual’s mendacity.’ Then you’ve gotten [an] expertise the place it principally feels such as you’re in a Dateline documentary and also you understand, ‘I didn’t know.’ I really didn’t know.”

Luddington added that it “throws you for a loop since you really feel like your personal intuition on stuff is means off.”

“I don’t like having felt like somebody like that was in our orbit, and never feeling like I sensed any of that, the reality, myself,” she famous. “It simply is uncomfortable, and you already know, none of it feels good. It simply sucks to be a part of the story. It’s uncomfortable to be a part of the story.”