Katherine Heigl revealed she left Hollywood after realizing she needed “somewhere to escape to.”
“I think some people are mountain people, and I think some people are beach people,” Heigl said. “I’m sort of a mountain person and have always been that way. And my mom realized, because we went out to LA when I was 17 and hustled and hustled for years, right? And I think she realized at a certain point that I needed somewhere to escape to and kind of clear my head, and that grounded me.”
“So we started trying to find, and dreaming about trying to find, that perfect place. And we found Utah, and then I started making enough money to be able to afford to do that.”
Heigl’s home in Utah began as a vacation home, but later decided to make it her permanent residence.
“We built these houses in Utah that we expected to be more kind of vacation homes, or when I could get away from the hustle and all the work. And we just started spending more and more time there,” she explained. “And it was my husband who finally made it his primary residence on his driver’s license and stuff. And we went. ‘Yeah, I think this is our primary residence. We live here now.'”
From Fox News:
Heigl previously admitted that she didn't know how to raise the children in L.A. The family moved out to Utah in 2010 after Heigl left "Grey's Anatomy." Heigl allegedly exited the show due to tension with the executive producer and creator Shonda Rhimes.
