Welcome to a new segment I call "Predicting the Future". In addition to my crazy web skillz I believe I have quite the knack for predicting the future in a few cases. For example, I predicted that Pamela Anderson would probably get a divorce from that last guy she married. I also predicted years ago that Britney Spears was going to be unhappy with some of her life choices. I know - both of those were really going out on a limb - but those are the kind of risks I am willing to take. Today I will look into the future life of Katherine Heigl.

Katherine is an actress who is probably most famous for her role on Grey's Anatomy. She has also been in a few movies like Knocked Up and 27 Dresses. She won an Emmy last year for her role on Grey's. I don't have many opinions about her as an actress - that is not what this post is about. I am just here to objectively tell her future. What I DO know is that in addition to bad-mouthing some of the movies she was in, she recently asked for her name to be removed from consideration for the Emmy's this year. This was her reasoning ...

"I did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant an Emmy nomination and in an effort to maintain the integrity of the academy organization, I withdrew my name from contention. In addition, I did not want to potentially take away an opportunity from an actress who was given such materials."

There are all sorts of strange things you can learn about Ms. Heigl from this quote. First, she is obviously very humble - if humility means that you automatically assume you are going to be nominated and win an award. It also shows that she is very respectful - if respect means bad-mouthing your co-workers. But most importantly it shows that she is severely out of touch with reality.
Supposedly this stunt was an attempt to find her way out of a contract with the TV show. Perhaps they will get so fed up with her saying mean things about the very show that made her famous that they just won't want her around anymore - and then she can go focus on her movie career. The unfortunate side to that for her is that in the long term people don't want to work with people who talk bad about them. People are already seeing her as a whiny, ungrateful, spoiled brat. Can't she see that? Doesn't she know that the more stuff she says like this - the less people will want to support her career? Surely she has someone close to her that can communicate this obvious truth. I mean, that's what managers are for.
After very little research, I found that her manager's name is Nancy. Nancy Helgl. Oh - I see. Her mother is her manager. I believe that is called a momager. No wonder she is so humble and respectful. Her mother is probably always at her side telling her that she is the greatest actress alive and that she deserves more than what she has. If people aren't connecting with her character - it isn't because her movie career makes it harder for the writers to write big time-intensive parts for her - but it is because the writers aren't writing good stuff. I am sure the picture her momager paints is pretty far from reality.
So that brings us back to the Emmy comment. It seems to me that Katherine was going to be embarrassed and disappointed by not winning the Emmy again - so she essentially took her name out of the race so that she wouldn't have to hear the Emmy voters take it out for her. That way she can still believe that she is the greatest actress of all time - who happens to be gracious enough to allow someone else to win this year. How thoughtful. In addition to that - she is able to blame the writers of the show for not doing their job as professionally as she obviously does hers. Ouch. So assuming that Katherine keeps this behavior up, this is my prediction for her future.
Grey's will not let her out of her contract. She will continue to whine. She will continue to do movies on the side. She will continue to annoy the general public. One day she will eventually leave Grey's excited to move on to her movie career. She will learn soon after "headlining" her first big movie that people aren't that interested in seeing her. She will enter her downward spiral of depression as the picture her momager paints gets further and further from reality. She will "choose" to take some "time off" to have kids or travel or something and will emerge years later acting in the mother role of Sean Preston Spears-Federline's Disney Channel movie called Dream High about love and dancing in high school. She will show up to the 20 year Grey's Anatomy reunion show wearing more make-up than any of the other actors. She will occasionally appear as a talking head on VH1's Best Week Ever commenting on useless entertainment news.
Those things will all come true unless you, Katherine, do something about it. You control your own destiny. You can choose to be nice to people and not think too highly of yourself (See: Steve Carell). You can choose to apologize to those people you work with and do your best at your job. You can choose to surround yourself with people who will keep you grounded. You can choose to hire me as a life coach and pay me $20K/month. Otherwise, see you on VH1.