From that moment on, audiences knew they were in for an intense emotional journey.
But did you know that McDreamy wasn’t even originally supposed to be Grey’s love interest at all?
I said I wanted that Dempsey kid."

Knight (viaPeople) The outlet reported the incident as prompting Knight to come out of the closet.
“I think when that happened, something shifted, and it became bigger than myself.”
Knight told Ellen Degeneres in his 2007 appearance on her show.

That was going to suggest that the love was not true … and McDreamy wasn’t McDreamy.
For me, that was untenable."
And so McDreamy had to die.