Grey’s Anatomy James Pickens Jr. Shares Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

James Pickens Jr. reveals prostate cancer diagnosis and says it was caught “really early,” a real-life turn that mirrors his Grey’s Anatomy character, Dr. Richard Webber. In the fall finale, Richard told Dr. Miranda Bailey (played by Chandra Wilson) that he had received a cancer diagnosis; two days later, on Nov. 15, 2025, Pickens shared his own news publicly.

Speaking in a recent interview with Black Health Matters, the 71-year-old said, “It’s not the kind of news anyone wants to hear, but to be honest, prostate cancer has run through my family. My father had it. He had a lot of brothers; several of them had it. I would have been…