Krista Vernoff has a long history with Grey's Anatomy. She worked as a head writer and executive producer on for its first seven season, then returned for Season 14, and has now made her directorial debut in Season 15. But despite being one of the women responsible for making the show such a success, she admits that a major storyline in past seasons would be completely different in the #MeToo era.



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"If you look at, for example, Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd through the lens of Time's Up and #MeToo, he was her boss, she was an intern, and she kept saying, 'No, walk away from me,' and he kept pursuing her, and that is probably not a story we would tell on the show today, and it's a beautiful reflection of the changing times," Vernoff told The Los Angeles Times.

Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepherd and Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Grey on Grey’s Anatomy. Richard Cartwright Getty Images

Moving forward, Vernoff said she is making a concerted effort to make sure that the relationships on Grey's portray women in a more empowering way.

Krista Vernoff attends the 300th episode celebration for ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy. David Livingston Getty Images

"This season, we're doing a little bit of a reversal as we begin to build this love triangle that's emerging with Deluca as one the people in that triangle, and he is a resident and Meredith is an attending, and we're having to address it differently than we ever would have before," she said. "We're having to talk about and look at power dynamics. It is an ongoing conversation in the writers room. How do we tell that story in a way that feels honest and romantic and sexy and yet proactive and progressive?"

The showrunner also shared that she has opened up the floor for women in the writer's room to feel comfortable sharing their own personal stories with sexual assault.



"As all of Hollywood has been sort of reckoning with the changing rules and the changing tides, I have felt a personal responsibility to live into that, whatever that means," Vernoff said. "I've had a lot of conversations with my own writers room about safety and wanting to be a safe place, and if anyone has anything they want to come and talk about, I'm here and I'll help them figure it out. I just feel like we all went along to get along for a really long time and now that's done, and we're saying, 'Hey, there's a better way.'"

Eileen Reslen I’m Eileen, the digital news reporter at Hearst Digital Media.

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