Loretta Devine, who has played Adele Webber since the beginning on Grey's Anatomy, returns this week for the first of five episodes in her character's latest story arc.

It's an arc that many have speculated will be Adele's last.

“I’m a little scared myself,” says the actress. “I know she keeps falling and that she’s blaming it on her shoes. They don’t know what it is, I think. I have a couple of more episodes [to film], so I think we’ll be finding out in the next couples of episodes.”

Adele with Miranda in her latest stint in the hospital.

While her relationship with Richard has been open-ended as far as fans' knew, it turns out she and the Chief are “the happiest they’ve ever been in their lives,” she said. 

“They’re very much in love, and he’s very supportive of her. They just can’t agree on what’s causing her to fall,” she said. “Her personality is still intact, though."

"I have a couple of great scenes with Bailey. Bailey and I are always butting heads because those are two powerful women. So they send Bailey in to examine me, and oh my God, we get into it. She still has her spunk, I would say.”

Adele and Richard have typically been at odds when she's been around. Could the writers be leading us to believe they're happy now only to set us up for a fall?

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