Grey’s Anatomy alum Chyler Leigh announced her split from her husband Nathan West on a recent podcast experience.
In a Tuesday, May 12 episode of the podcast Books That Changed My Life, Leigh revealed to host Chris Collins that her relationship with West had “reached a point where it was just time” to “let it go.”
“Even after such a long time, we’d been together — it would have been 26 years this year?” she said. “It’s amicable and we’re co-parenting, we’re doing all the things that we can. But [we] just hit a point where it was like, ‘OK, what you want and what I want aren’t really lining up anymore. And I’d rather us be on good terms and us not harbor the resentment and the anger… all that stuff.'”
She continued, “It’s not worth it. And when it becomes so abundantly apparent and the kids are picking up on it and the whole family, it just shifts the mood and the dynamic of everything.”
Leigh and West met in 1999 at an audition and got married in 2002. They share three children together.
Leigh portrayed Dr. Lexie Grey on Grey’s Anatomy from 2007 to 2012 and reprised the role briefly in season 17. Leigh is currently starring in the Hallmark drama The Way Home alongside Evan Williams, Sadie Laflamme-Snow, and Andie MacDowell. The show will soon wrap up its fourth season which premiered in April 2026.
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