Chandra Wilson reveals to us exclusively that Bailey’s relationships with her colleagues will be ruined after Thursday’s Grey’s Anatomy episode 9×21 “Sleeping Monster.”
When the CDC gets called in to investigate a deadly infection spreading through Bailey’s patients, the doctor will find herself isolated from her peers. Chandra Wilson spoke with us today about how the investigation will affect her character as well as her relationship with her co-workers.
Hypable.com: How will Bailey react to being isolated from her friends at the hospital?
Chandra Wilson: Not well, of course. You know her ego can’t handle being told to sit down. So she of course has to let the CDC come in and find out what the source of the problem is, but she will have a very difficult time with the feeling that everyone is abandoning her because they have to be the board members or they have to carry their hospital title. She feels like their friendships and their history should take precedence over all of that. If it was anyone else or any other physician, she would tell them to sit down and let the process happen and just go back to work. [Laughs] But she just can’t do that herself.
What is Bailey most concerned about during the CDC investigation? Is she worried about losing her job?
The thing she is worried about the least is that she did anything wrong. So they’ve got to do whatever they’ve got to do in order to find the source. The issue that she deals with the most is of being abandoned by her colleagues.
How does the CDC investigation affect Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital as it continues to settle in under new management?
They’ll get to the source of what the issue was – what was causing the infections – so that will be a good thing for going forward. The stuff that’s left over is the breaking of the personal relationships as a result from this, especially for Bailey. She doesn’t let things go very easily. She just has a real issue with how she feels she’s been treated.
Will anyone try and help her during the investigation?
People will be helping her all along the way, she just won’t know it! [laughs] All of the meetings they’re having behind closed doors, it’s an interesting position for the board members because they have to represent the hospital and that’s just the position they’re in right now. It’s nothing to do with being against Bailey right now. It’s just that they have to be board members.
Is it painful for Bailey that two doctors she trained (Meredith and Cristina) are on the board that called in the CDC?
If anything it’s just really annoying. [Laughs] You know she and Alex Karev of the original folks don’t have a financial stake in the hospital. Even though they gave her the genome lab and there’s a little security in that, this goes to show there really isn’t any job security. She really doesn’t have a real stake in the hospital, and if push comes to shove, she could lose her job. I think that’s more difficult for her than anything else.
Is her anger towards everyone why she shuts everyone out in the next episode ‘Do You Believe in Magic’?
Yeah, anger…I don’t know if anger is necessarily the right word. It’s kind of the penalty everybody has to pay! [laughs] That’s what they get for not representing her best.
It sounds like she’s worried no one’s got her back when she had everyone’s back.
Exactly.
I also see that Ben will be coming back. Does Bailey call for him or someone else?
I’ll let you guess on that, but Miss Independent and Miss Taking Care of Myself and Miss I Have This All Together…do you think she made a phone call to her husband? [laughs] I’m not saying!
Is the investigation just too much for Bailey to handle on her own?
No, it really is about the personal relationships and the lack of having a champion or feeling like she has a champion, like someone is really yelling out, “Don’t look at Bailey. You know there is no fault with Miranda Bailey. Look at everything else.”
Do you think the doctors will be able to make up the damage done to their relationships with Bailey on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’?
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