Just before Meredith decided to turn herself in to the police for committing insurance fraud, she sat Zola, Bailey, and Ellis down and told them that she would be gone for some time.
Zola asked how long Meredith would be gone, and she said just for a little while. Meredith didn't give them details but assured them that Alex, Maggie, and Amelia would be there for them. Zola came to Meredith one morning saying she felt sick. She had a headache that persisted through breakfast, so Meredith took her to the hospital and demanded that Tom get her a CT immediately, reporting to him Zola's medical history.
Tom did the CT, which showed that she just needed a shunt revision, commonly required when children grow. He took her in for surgery, which went smoothly. After her surgery, Zola was awake and recovering. At Halloween, Zola wore her butterfly costume again. When Andrew tried to help her put the wings on, she got upset with him and said he's not her dad.
She later told Andrew that her father had fixed her wings before he died and she didn't want people to forget him. Andrew assured her that that would never happen. Zola came to Meredith one day, saying that she'd finished her science project and she wanted to show Alex.
Meredith then had to explain to her that Alex wasn't coming back to Seattle. They watched the presentation, but quickly realized something was wrong. He presented, but wasn't making any sense.
Meredith asked Zola to get her phone for her. Shortly afterward, the stream was disconnected. When Amelia realized she'd missed Link's birthday, she convinced the kids to watch a movie by saying it was Link's birthday wish, giving them some free time.
Prior to her mom getting sick, Zola attended her brother's birthday party that year where he stuck his face right in the cake and then licked the icing off his fingers and made a big production of it. Zola laughed so hard she peed her pants which just made everyone laugh even harder. When Meredith ended up in a coma on a ventilator due to COVID, Zola overheard Amelia talking about Meredith being sick and became worried that her mom was going to die.
Amelia and Maggie later sat down with her and explained to her what was happening. She was worried, but simply said they shouldn't tell Bailey and Ellis unless they had to, because they were too young to understand. Shortly after Andrew died, Zola, Bailey, and Ellis had a dance party in the backyard while the grieving adults supervised and tried to figure out how to tell the kids, who had loved Andrew. Zola also later talked to Amelia about living forever and if they'd choose it or not.
Zola said if she could create a medicine that would make someone live forever, she'd give it to her mom. They spent most of the day outside, playing on their play set. At the end of the day, Owen came over and told Zola that they'd taken Meredith off the ventilator and she was breathing on her own.
Zola happily spread the information to the other kids. For two weeks, they had no contact with anyone but each other. When they arrived in Seattle, they were excited to meet Scout and offered to take all four kids to see Mt. Rainier so Amelia and Link could have some time to themselves. Zola increasingly struggled with her mom being sick, especially after the death of George Floyd.
She knew Meredith would be angry as well, but told Maggie she didn't want to go to any protests without her mom. One day, after learning she signed out of her math class early, Maggie talked to Zola about her struggles and encouraged her to scream to express how she was feeling.
Later, Winston had the idea to sneak Zola into Meredith's hospital room in the hopes it would encourage her to wake up.
She stood by Meredith's bedside and spoke to her until she woke up, then hugged her happily. After her pulmonary studies showed a remarkable improvement in her lung capacity and her labs came out clear, Meredith was discharged from the hospital.
Instead of leaving to a fanfare, she had Jackson slip her out the back and drop her off at home, where her kids greeted her happily. Because she hadn't told anyone she was coming, the kids' welcome home poster was unfinished, but she appreciated it anyway and asked her kids to tell her everything that had happened while she was gone.
At this celebration, Owen proposed to Teddy for the second time and she accepted. In August of , Zola attended Maggie and Winston's backyard wedding.
However, at the wedding, Maggie's father and Winston's grandmother opposed the wedding, wanting to wait until more people could attend, so the wedding was postponed. In April , a new wedding was planned and they all attended. Zola helped her mother spread flower petals on the beach in preparation for the wedding and then she walked down the aisle with her mother and siblings to spread more flower petals at the start of the ceremony.
During the reception Zola, along with both of her siblings, held engagement rings for Link as he proposed to Amelia on the beach after the ceremony. After working with Addison on a surgery and talking to her about Derek, Meredith invited Addison to her house to meet her kids.
They were happy to meet her and asked if she was a friend of their dad's. She said that she was and they immediately got along. Zola quickly bonded with Derek after he and Meredith decided to try to adopt her. Meredith bonded with her as well, but more slowly. Derek occasionally struggled with being a white man raising a black daughter. He tried to set up a playdate between Zola and Bailey's much older son, Tuck , though Bailey shot that idea down. She suggested to him that the reason people were staring wasn't that he's white and Zola's black but because he didn't know how to do Zola's hair and it didn't look good.
She showed him how to do Zola's hair properly. When Derek later learned about Maggie Pierce , he encouraged Meredith to try to bond with her, saying Zola needed more black people in the family because he was running out of ways to braid Zola's hair and Bailey wouldn't show him anymore. After baby Bailey was born, Zola's parents worked to make sure she knew she hadn't been replaced by her brother. In order to give Meredith more time for her work, Derek decided to step back from his work and stay home with the kids more.
After her brother Bailey was born, Meredith said Zola wanted to take him to daycare to show him off. In the seventeen seasons that Grey's Anatomy has been on television, hundreds of actors have appeared on the series. Of those hundreds of actors, many have been children including some pretty famous names , but no child actor has appeared in more episodes of Grey's Anatomy than Aniela Gumbs. Gumbs plays Zola Grey Shepherd, the daughter of series leads Dr.
Meredith Grey and Dr. Derek Shepherd. Gumbs has been on the show for several years now, but she remains a relatively unknown actress. Here are ten things to know about Grey's Anatomy 's Aniela Gumbs.
A post shared by Aniela Gumbs anielagumbs. Aniela Gumbs first started playing Zola during season eleven of Grey's Anatomy in Season eleven is noteworthy for being the season in which Spoiler Alert Dr. Derek Shepherd dies. Therefore, it makes plenty of sense that Zola started featuring more prominently in the show that season as she and her family dealt with the death of her father.
She often posts videos of herself talking to her fans. Gumbs includes hashtags such as lovemyshow, lovewhatIdo, and loveacting in almost every post on her Instagram account. She often sends thanks to her fans and her costars for allowing her to act. View this post on Instagram. Narratively speaking, this ending isn't out of the realm of plausibility.
Ever since Zola was introduced to the series, key moments from her childhood have mirrored key moments from Meredith's. Both have had to call to help their mothers, who collapsed in the kitchen, and both lost their fathers at young ages though in different ways and grew up in a household run by a single mother who was also an award-winning surgeon. Clearly, Grey's Anatomy has already been laying the breadcrumbs for emotional parallels between Meredith and Zola. The show is adept at nodding to its own past and bringing themes full circle, especially when providing its beloved characters with appropriate exits.
Therefore, it seems most fitting that Meredith, Grey's Anatomy 's longest-standing protagonist , gets a perfect happy ending. Cured of the disease that wrecked her mother while inspiring her daughter to achieve greatness would be that ending.
Even the fans, especially those who have stuck with the show for almost two decades now, deserve to see a happy, healthy, and surrounded-by-love Meredith.
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