Patrick Dempsey broke the heart of millions when he left his role as Dr. McDreamy to mend the heart of his lucky wife, Jillian Fink

Grey’s Anatomy fans will remember April 23, 2015, as a day their lives changed forever. Though it wasn’t apocalyptic, many were devastated by the sudden death of Dr. McDreamy, played by Hollywood cutie Patrick Dempsey.

In the 1987 romantic comedy, Can’t Buy Me Love, Dempsey played the nerdy teenager Ronald Miller, who had to pay for pretending a girlfriend. Years later, the star re-emerged in the medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy as the dreamy doctor whose death caused a meltdown with his die-hard followers.

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Though Dempsey hinted in 2013 that he might be leaving the show, Entertainment Weekly reported in 2014 that he and co-star Ellen Pompeo, who plays Meredith, signed a new two-year contract, which gave the good doctor at least until 2016.

Grey’s Anatomy fans will remember April 23, 2015, as a day their lives changed forever. Though it wasn’t apocalyptic, many were devastated by the sudden death of Dr. McDreamy, played by Hollywood cutie Patrick Dempsey.

In the 1987 romantic comedy, Can’t Buy Me Love, Dempsey played the nerdy teenager Ronald Miller, who had to pay for pretending a girlfriend. Years later, the star re-emerged in the medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy as the dreamy doctor whose death caused a meltdown with his die-hard followers.

Little was known about Dempsey’s departure from the hit series and even those of us who had never seen the show, were left wondering “why?”

According to reports, Dempsey, the father of three, hit his breaking point and started acting out on the set of the show.

In an interview for the book, How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy (2021), Dempsey confessed to resenting the Grey’s schedule. “It’s 10 months, 15 hours a day. You never know your schedule, so your kid asks you, ‘What are you doing on Monday?’ And you go, ‘I don’t know,’ because I don’t know my schedule,” Dempsey said. “Doing that for 11 years is challenging. But you have to be grateful, because you’re well compensated, so you can’t really complain because you don’t really have a right.”

And, what happened early 2015 might explain his on-set behavior.

On January 23, 2015, Radar Online delivered some breaking news with a story that said, “McDreamy is...