The interview that ruined Katherine Heigl's career overnight

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Back in March, Katherine Heigl made headlines when she was cast as the lead in a new CBS comedy, Our House. According to Variety this is the first time the actress has been cast in a television comedy. But over ten years ago, Heigl actually made many, many more headlines because of her comments about her role in a big screen comedy — comments that at the time seemed like they'd ruined her career overnight.

She was riding high back in 2007. The former Grey's Anatomy star not only won an Emmy Award for best supporting actress in a drama series that year, she also began transitioning over to the big screen with her successful starring turn in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up opposite Seth Rogen.

Unfortunately, this movie-star-in-the-making's rise to the top quickly unraveled following an infamously ill-fated interview with Vanity Fair the following January. In a move that still has us scratching our heads, Heigl openly trash her own work in the coveted cover story.

"It was a little sexist," Heigl said of Knocked Up at the time. "It paints the women as shrews, as humorless and uptight, and it paints the men as lovable, goofy, fun-loving guys. It exaggerated the characters, and I had a hard time with it, on some days. I'm playing such a b***h; why is she being such a killjoy? Why is this how you're portraying women?" The actress added, "Ninety-eight percent of the time it was an amazing experience, but it was hard for me to love the movie." Ouch.

It should be noted that Knocked Up had earned an impressive 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes just months earlier, while banking in $219.1 million at the box office. Given the beloved summer flick's undeniable success, Heigl's candid comments sparked immediate backlash from fans and colleagues alike, who seemed to feel she was being ungrateful.