Controversial actor Isaiah Washington will no longer be on the hit ABC TV show Grey’s Anatomy. Washington angered gay and lesbian groups after referring to cast mate T.R. Knight as a faggot on the set of the show.  He then used the word again at the Golden Globes when being interviewed with the cast.

Washington’s contract option was not renewed for next season, series producer ABC Television Studios said Thursday.

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore,” Washington said in a statement released through his publicist, Howard Bragman, without elaboration.

He drew fire after using the anti-gay epithet backstage at the Golden Globe Awards back in January while denying he’d used it previously on the set against cast mate T.R. Knight.

Gay rights groups and cast member Katherine Heigl, who publicly denounced Washington, were among his most vocal critics.

“This is something that will have changed the scope of his life,” Heigl told Entertainment Weekly last month. Washington was “sorry and embarrassed” for the mistake, she said.

Washington tried to make amends and said he was seeking therapy.

He also met with officials from the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and filmed a public service announcement in which he said “words have power” to hurt or heal.

In the season finale, Washington’s character Dr. Preston Burke was left at the altar by his fiance Dr. Christina Yang.  Burke had cleared all of his prized possessions out of their apartment when Yang returned there in her wedding dress.