Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington Explain Why They Initially Disliked Each Other on Grey's Anatomy Set

Best friends Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington launched a new podcast earlier this year built around their longtime friendship. But according to two Grey’s Anatomy stars, their relationship got off to a rough start.

In the latest episode of Sophia Bush Works in progress podcast, Luddington, 40, revealed that on her first day as a member Grey’s elected back in 2012, she managed to agree with Capshaw.

“You look at me and think: ‘How could you not love me right away?’ Luddington joked. “But Jessica didn’t. Jessica didn’t love me.”

Jessica Capshaw in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.

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Capshaw, 48, who played Dr. She explained to Arizona Robbins on ABC’s long-running medical drama from 2009 to 2018 that when Luddington joined the cast as Dr. Jo Wilson in Season 9, recently returned to work after giving birth to her daughter. “I think I was dealing with a bunch of different things,” she said. “I wasn’t kind to myself. And I think what we all know is that if you’re not kind to yourself, you’re probably not kind to others either.”

Capshaw said she and Luddington were on set during a break from filming. “She was — love this part — gorgeous and fun and had that infectious laugh, and everyone was so excited to work with her,” Capshaw said of Luddington. “[Series creator] Shonda Rhimes got a hamburger food truck and I went to get one.”

“She got a hamburger truck,” Luddington interjected. “I thought, ‘I’m going to go out, and this is great. I’m going to take a picture, post it on Twitter and thank Shonda for the burger truck.’ ”

Camilla Luddington and Chris Carmack in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’. Liliane Lathan/ABC

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“I took a picture. I made a bookmark. I put it on Twitter and sat in my seat thinking about nothing else,” she continued. “This monster is invading…”

“The story gets bigger every time she does it,” Capshaw noted with a laugh.

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“She was like, ‘Who posted the picture?’ “, Luddington recalled. “And what I really didn’t know, really, is that she was in a part of the picture, on the side was Jessica Capshaw motorboating, like, four hamburgers. And, like, I didn’t know. I thought I was taking a picture of the truck.”

“She was filming hamburgers, and I posted it. And she thought it was pure sabotage,” she added.

“She was trying to knock me down,” Capshaw joked.

Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington in June 2024.

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“I deleted that so quickly,” Luddington said. Despite that, she added, things remained “icy” between the two during her first season Grey’s.

Ultimately, though, the two later cleared the airwaves when they ended up being the only ones to show up at a planned cast dinner.

“We were forced to reconcile,” Luddington said, “but then we just loved each other.”

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