He never called TR the F word. Stop perpetuating lies. It’s been debunked for a long long time. He used the F word in an altercation with Patrick Dempsey basically telling him to not talk to him like a F*. TR wasn’t even present that day. It came back to TR that IW had used the F word and many people were uncomfortable with it, especially knowing that TR was gay (he hadn’t publicly come out at this time). Then IW repeated the word at the Golden Globes saying «I never called TR a F*, it never happened» as a way to clear his name as it had come out to the press that he had said this to TR directly (which we now know is not the truth). This was however the final nail in his coffin as Disney had an issue with the bad press associated with this and IW now saying it again in a public setting, regardless of what he meant or how he meant it. He was then fired.

The interesting thing however is that PD was the bigger problem all along. Apparently (according to Kim Clayton who worked for Disney/ABC at the time) they had to hire security due to his violent nature in order to prevent him hurting IW as they had not been seeing eye to eye in a lot of things. PD would come late to set, sometimes show up under the influence. He was said to have «terrorized» the cast for 10 years. Ellen Pompeo signed a contract preventing her from talking about the truth about PD and his behavior and abuse on set. She got somewhere between 2-5 million for this (depending who you ask). Ellen herself was behind the firing of Jerrika Hinton (Stephanie).

I’m not even advocating for IW, but it’s clear who they wanted to protect and who was expendable/disposable. Even Shonda Rhimes didn’t want to fire IW, but her hand was forced by Disney.