‘It Felt So Intimate’: ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star Opens Up About the Long Island Medium Reading That Brought Her Late Mom Through (Exclusive)
Camilla Luddington is opening up about the most emotional moment of her podcasting career so far, and it almost never made it to air.
The Grey’s Anatomy star, who co-hosts the Call It What It Is podcast with former co-star Jessica Capshaw, exclusively told Parade about the unexpected reading from Theresa Caputo that left her “stunned,” and which connected her to the mother she lost more than two decades ago.
“We had Theresa Caputo on, who is a Long Island medium,” Luddington said. “And my mom came through. My mom passed when I was 19.”
Luddington’s mother, Mary Luddington, died when the actress was a teenager, long before her breakout as Dr. Jo Wilson on the long-running ABC medical drama. The actress has spoken sparingly but movingly about the loss over the years, but the unannounced reading from the Long Island Medium alum caught her completely off guard.
“We had her on just to talk about her gift, not to do a reading,” Luddington explained. “And so that was a moment where I was kind of stunned and didn’t honestly know if I was going to air it because it felt like such an intimate thing.”
In the end, Luddington made the call to leave the reading in, and she’s glad she did.
“I ended up airing it because I just thought it was actually like a really beautiful moment to be able to share,” she told Parade. “But that definitely was crazy. It was wild.”
The episode, titled Call It with Theresa Caputo, dropped in October 2024 and remains one of the most talked-about installments of the podcast, which Luddington and Capshaw launched in 2024 as a space to talk Grey Sloan, motherhood and everything in between. For longtime fans of the actress, the episode marked one of the rawest, most personal moments she’s ever shared publicly.
For Luddington, the call to keep the reading in the final cut came down to one thing: connection.
“It happens like halfway through,” she told Parade, urging fans who haven’t heard it to go back and listen. “It’s so shocking.”
The reveal lands during one of the busiest stretches of Luddington’s career. The back half of Grey’s Anatomy Season 22 is currently airing on ABC, a season in which her character Jo Wilson nearly died during childbirth, while also managing her own Hashimoto’s disease diagnosis. Grey’s Anatomy was renewed for Season 23 by ABC last month and is expected to return to the network in fall 2026.
Call It What It Is is on a hiatus, with its last episode released in November 2025. Past episodes—including the Theresa Caputo installment—are available wherever podcasts are heard.