“I may have said a couple of things you didn’t like, but then that escalated to ‘she’s ungrateful,’ then that escalated to ‘she’s difficult,’ and that escalated to ‘she’s unprofessional’,” Heigel told The Washington Post. “What is your definition of difficult? Somebody with an opinion that you don’t like?

“Now, I’m 42, and that shit pisses me off.”

Heigel’s words are in response to several instances in her career that made headlines: she abstained from the Emmys in 2008 because she did not feel that she was “given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination”; she complained about working 17-hour days on Grey’s Anatomy; she called her 2007 comedy Knocked Up “a little sexist”.

Katherine Heigl recalls how those “she’s difficult” comments caused severe anxiety