‘Grey's Anatomy' Star Adelaide Kane Says Jules Is ‘in a State of Shock' After Mika's Exit

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07-03-2025

Note: This story contains spoilers from 'Grey's Anatomy' Season 21, Episode 9.
'Grey's Anatomy' returned with some big moments, a bonkers case and more than a few emotionally scarred doctors.
The midseason premiere, titled 'Hit the Floor,' resolved many big cliffhangers for the doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial, who we had last seen dealing with a record-breaking heat wave in Seattle in the aftermath of Dr. Mika Yasuda's heartbreaking exit.
Dr. Jules Millin (Adelaide Kane) was impacted the most by her fellow doctor's departure from the hospital, as the pair had been exploring a blossoming romantic relationship up until Mika's sister showed up asking for help with a cancer diagnosis — which resulted in her dying in a car accident and Mika leaving Seattle so she could heal from the grief away from where all fell apart.
In Episode 9, Jules is very much 'in a state of shock' from recent events and shutting all of her friends out, Kane said in an interview with TheWrap, which results in her making a mistake in surgery that leads to a patient falling off of the surgical table.
'This episode is a really beautiful exploration of what happens when you don not give yourself the time or the space to process your feelings,' Kane told TheWrap. 'We all do it to some extent when things are difficult … fake it till you make it a little bit, pretend everything is fine. But Jules is fooling nobody, except for herself, and in a hospital that sort of dissociation or distractedness can be incredibly dangerous.'
Jules' mistake came on the heels of her first lashing out at Bailey (Chandra Wilson), blaming her for not trying hard enough to keep Mika at the hospital, as well as her fellow classmate Simone (Alexis Floyd).
To make matters worse, a misunderstanding in the OR leads the higher-ups to believe it was Simone who made the mistake with the patient.
'I don't think she's even there [at that moment]. She's not even processing what happens,' Kane said. 'She is a good person and does not want somebody else to take the fall for her mistakes, but apologizing when you are already feeling miserable and hate yourself, and you have made all these mistakes, is very difficult.'
Near the end of the episode, Jules starts to make things right. She admits to Richard (James Pickens Jr.) that she made the mistake. Though he admires her intention of setting things right so it does not affect Simone's career, he tells her the person Jules really needs to be talking to in that moment is her friend. When she eventually finds Simone, she chickens out of the apology. She finds Simone reuniting with Lucas (Niko Terho) after surviving getting shot in a convenience store hours earlier.
The rest of the season will see more challenges for Jules, Kane teased, as she tries to shift her focus back into her career. We also should not expect her to jump into a new relationship any time soon, with Kane saying the sudden end of her relationship with Mika will steer Jules away from getting too emotionally involved, given her history.
Whether or not she will be able to fix her relationship with her friends remains to be seen.
The midseason premiere had plenty more story to tell, with Lucas and Jo (Camilla Luddington) surviving the convenience store shooting — though Jo had to undergo a procedure to keep her pregnancy safe after the trauma. Blue (Harry Shum Jr.) appeared to rekindle things with his ex-fiancée, who resurfaced earlier in the season. Teddy (Kim Raver) and Owen's (Kevin McKidd) faced yet another hurdle, as Owen confessed to developing feelings for his childhood friend Nora (Floriana Lima).
'Grey's Anatomy' airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on ABC and streams the next day on Hulu.
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