Camilla Luddington’s Gray’s Anatomy pregnant character, Jo, survived an emergency C-section — and the untimely beginning of her twin infants — however she’s not out of the woods simply but.
In the course of the Thursday, January 15, episode of the hit ABC sequence, Jo was nonetheless within the hospital after giving beginning to her and Hyperlink’s (Chris Carmack) twins. The infants, in the meantime, remained within the NICU, which Jo visited later within the episode.
Hyperlink and others at Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital observed Jo had been struggling emotionally after she snapped at a number of individuals — together with Winston (Anthony Hill). She subsequently developed a friendship with a fellow mother who allowed her to open up about her postpartum hormone drops.
After her new mother good friend collapsed, Jo tried to assist deal with her by way of speakerphone, which labored quickly when an intern was treating the girl. However as soon as her good friend was stabilized, Jo wasn’t allowed entry to her chart, which brought about Jo to interrupt out into tears whereas being wheeled away by Hyperlink — with out her permission.
Gray’s Anatomy’s latest episode additionally explored Jules’ (Adelaide Kane) crush on Winston who stays unaware of Jules’ emotions. Lucas (Niko Terho), in the meantime, was questioned by Simone (Alexis Floyd) for texting his most cancers affected person whereas Bailey (Chandra Wilson) and Owen (Kevin McKidd) tried a dangerous operation.
Catherine (Debbie Allen) arrived on the hospital with Dr. Laura Kaplan (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) in an try to supply Richard (James Pickens Jr.) therapy choices after his most cancers analysis. Regardless of having considerations about uncomfortable side effects, Richard agreed to Laura’s options.
Pickens, 72, opened up about his personal well being scare shortly after Richard’s analysis aired on the present.
“It’s not the sort of information anybody desires to listen to, however to be trustworthy, prostate most cancers has run by way of my household,” Pickens instructed Black Well being Issues in November 2025. “My father had it. He had a number of brothers; a number of of them had it. I might have been stunned if I hadn’t gotten it.”
He added: “I’ve received a 90-year-old first cousin, who’s nonetheless alive, truly, [and] he had it. His son has it, a few his brothers had it. Nobody, so far as I do know, has succumbed to it.”
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Pickens clarified he was recognized earlier within the yr.
“I began getting my annual bodily 34 years in the past, and I began my PSA testing after I was 41. I’m 73 now,” he recalled. “My urologist mentioned, ‘Since you had been so diligent in that piece of your well being, it was to your benefit. We had been capable of catch it so early since you had been being examined.’”
After seeing a specialist, Pickens opted to bear a prostatectomy.
“We caught it actually early, and they also thought that might be one of the best path to take,” Pickens defined. “I do have a uncommon variant that you just don’t see fairly often. They wished to err on the facet of warning and control it. It was uncommon sufficient that they wished to be sure that they had been crossing all of the T’s and dotting all their I’s, however they hadn’t seen one which was detected as early as mine.”
Pickens later revealed that he’s now in remission, writing by way of Instagram that very same month, “Hello associates, I’m blessed and grateful to be cancer-free. Thanks a lot for all of the love and help! Get checked!”
Gray’s Anatomy airs on ABC Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET earlier than streaming the subsequent day on Hulu.
