On 'Grey's Anatomy,' a Blast From Richard's Past Threatens His Marriage

Feb. 23 2021, Updated 11:25 a.m. ET

Dr. Richard Webber has clearly had large issues of fidelity in his previous, and it seems like he could be barreling toward another disastrous affair in Season 16 of Grey's Anatomy. If you ignored her first appearance last season, you will be scratching your head questioning how Richard knows Gemma, the girl he bumped into on the clinic, and whom he opted to head out with somewhat than going house to patch issues up with Catherine.

So who is Gemma on Grey's Anatomy — and how big a task will she play?

Gemma, played via Jasmine Guy, first showed up in Season 15, Episode 22, "Head Over High Heels," and the name of that episode principally alludes to the coincidence that landed Gemma within the ER with a stiletto sticking out of her chest. It seems she had indulged just a little an excessive amount of and awoke to find she had someway stabbed herself in the middle with her own shoe.

As Maggie is treating her, Richard acknowledges Gemma from AA. It seems they shared a sponsor, Ollie, who just lately passed away, main Gemma to throw 17 years of sobriety out the window. After patching her up, Richard provides to be there for Gemma as she gets back on the wagon.

They reconnected on the aptly titled third episode of this season, "Reunited," when Richard, now heading up Pac-North's residency program, discovers his outdated pal has taken a role within the clinic's billing department. Although Richard appeared after all able to patch things up at house with Catherine, but after getting her voicemail, he runs into Gemma once more, who invited him out for dinner. And with their plain chemistry and a shaky basis in his marriage, this does not glance just right for Drs. Webber and Fox.

Jasmine Guy is habitual in numerous episodes as Gemma.

While heterosexual men and women can for sure have platonic relationships, I think anyone who has been married or in a long-term relationship can let you know that the indicators of an affair are lighting up giant time at this time. After a hard day, you usually look to decompress with your partner, and Richard choosing his friend (with whom he has troubling quantities of chemistry) as a substitute, could be a slippery slope.

It doesn't seem like this little after-work time out will be the end of the road for Gemma and Richard. Jasmine Guy is routine in no less than three episodes this season, and the synopsis for Episode 7, airing Nov. 7, forecasts issues are still no longer OK in the Fox-Webber household.

"Catherine is back in town and has no idea what's been going on between Jackson and Maggie, while her relationship with Richard has become distant," it reads. So it would seem the temporary inclination Webber needed to make up with his wife should have handed.

I gotta say, it will bum me out so much if Richard stepped out on Catherine the best way he did on Adele, and it would be double dirty taking into consideration the truth his second spouse still has most cancers that would rear its ugly head again at any moment. That mentioned, Jasmine Guy is a sensational actress and it is great to grasp she'll be again for a couple of more episodes, even supposing she may spell threat for one in every of my favourite Grey's couples.

Grey's Anatomy airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

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