Drama Alert! Torrey DeVitto Hints at the *One* Chicago Med Co-Star She’s Not Friends With: ‘I Don’t Like Her’
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Torrey DeVitto is opening up about her experience on Chicago Med, and as it turns out, the actress might not have gotten along with everyone on the cast.
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While appearing on Rachel Bilson’s Broad Ideas podcast on July 15, DeVitto said she “loved” the show and had a “great time” working on it, but admitted that she didn’t particularly like one of her Chicago Med co-stars. “I loved [almost] everybody I worked with,” she said with a laugh. Bilson’s co-host Olivia Allen then assured her that “we can’t love everyone.”
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DeVitto continued: “I used to think it was a me problem if I didn’t love somebody. I was like, ‘Okay how can I find … that connecting force that’s within both of us.'” The actress then revealed that an energy healer helped her realize that it’s okay to not get along with everyone. “She was like ‘You can love everybody, but you don’t have to like everyone and that’s okay.’ And I was like ‘Great, well I don’t like her,'” DeVitto recalled.
She also acknowledged that people could be dealing with personal issues, but noted: ‘I can see that they’re in this and it’s probably not them, but I don’t have the time or space right now to dig that out and that’s not somebody I’m willing to invest my time in.”
DeVitto starred on the first six seasons of the NBC medical drama as the beloved Dr. Natalie Manning. When viewers first met Manning, she was a pregnant and single mother-to-be. Prior the events of the pilot, her husband was killed in action during his deployment overseas. Manning went on to welcome their son, Owen, and date Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss). In the Season 7 premiere, Manning was fired from Gaffney Chicago Medical Center for stealing an experimental drug to save her mom’s life. She briefly returned in the Season 8 finale, reuniting with Halstead and walking off into the sunset together.
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Since exiting the show, DeVitto has remained close with several One Chicago stars, including Gehlfuss and Chicago P.D.’s Marina Squerciati. There are a handful of other Chicago Med actors whom DeVitto doesn’t seem to be as close with, and she could have been referring to any of them during her podcast appearance. One possibility is fellow original cast member Marlyne Barrett, who plays Maggie Lockwood, as the actresses no longer follow each other on Instagram.
Although DeVitto avoided naming the cast member she didn’t vibe with, she did reveal the real reason she left the show. “I’ll be very blunt, the last season I was there they wrote my character in a really weird way and wrote her into a big hole that she could not get out of,” she said, adding that the show wanted a “change-up” and didn’t renew her contract, which she was glad about.
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“I was so grateful because without it being a mutual conversation I would have never done it on my own because of the consistent paycheck,” she explained. “But I also knew that I was creeping up to that time where I was like, ‘If I really wanted to focus on this personal life stuff, I gotta go.’”
After her departure, DeVitto did in fact turn her focus to her personal life. In September 2023, she announced her engagement to director Jared LaPine. “Earlier this month at 5 pm on a weekday while walking the back trails at the farm, still in my PJs and goat boots, he got down on one knee, in what I hoped wasn’t poison ivy, and asked for forever. My answer was obvious. ????,” she captioned a photo of herself and LaPine on Instagram.
Several months later, the couple revealed that they are expecting their first child together. “??????Baby girl arriving this November??????,” DeVitto wrote alongside a photo of herself cradling her baby bump as LaPine gazed lovingly at her. While DeVitto may not have meshed with everyone on the Chicago Med cast, several of her former co-stars congratulated her on the baby news. “Congratulations!!! ??????,” S. Epatha Merkeson, who stars as Dr. Sharon Goodwin, commented on the post. Fellow alum Yaya DaCosta, who played April Sexton, added: “Yesssssssssssss! So happy for you, beautiful ??.”
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