Married to Medicine’s Toya Bush-Harris ‘Proud’ of Husband After Season 12 Reunion

Season 12 of Married to Medicine might be over, but we’re still mentally recovering from that extra shady reunion. In case you missed it. Toya Bush-Harris and her husband, Dr. Eugene Harris, came under fire from multiple directions, but most of that heat came from Steve Sanders.

The former NFL player clocked in, ready to defend his wife, Dr. Mimi Sanders. He went on multiple tirades aimed at Eugene, throwing shade left and right. But how did Toya feel seeing her man land in the hot seat? Proud!

We recently caught up with Toya and learned about her new partnership with INTENNSE, a high-energy, team-based tennis league. During our conversation, she made it very clear that the drama with “that Mimi couple” felt a little too severe to settle over a friendly game of tennis.

At the reunion, both onstage and backstage, Steve sparred with Eugene and accused him of wanting to be “one of the women.” He called him “Eugene Bush” and complained about feeling singled out at the Med Gala.

The shade was serious, and Toya admitted that Eugene felt a little unsettled after it all happened. He felt like, for the first time, people were coming for him. It didn’t feel like the usual “back and forth with friends.”

Toya said, “I felt so bad for him because over 12 years, that’s what he was trying to say, it’s never been that for the men, and he didn’t get closure.”

However, Toya didn’t see everything that transpired until she watched it on TV. When she saw her man in action, she realized he got all of the closure that he needed.

“I was so proud of him,” Toya gushed.

She continued, “He was very professional, and I told him that you have to realize that when you are in the heat of anything, remember who you are. And he remembered exactly who he was. He’s a physician, he’s educated, and he’s a man that people respect.”

While the husbands usually sit on the sidelines, this reunion flipped the script, and not necessarily in a good way. Still, Toya made it clear she wouldn’t change a thing about how Eugene handled the situation.

“I told him I had nothing. No feedback. You were perfect in that scenario, and we can’t be mad at other people for hating the life that you have and wanting to argue with you like you’re on the streets somewhere,” Toya concluded. “We don’t do that.”

Elias Koteas plays detective Alvin Olinsky in just over 100 episodes of “Chicago P.D.” This is in addition to a combined eight episodes as the character on “Chicago Justice,” “Chicago Fire,” and “Chicago Med.” Between his debut in the “Chicago P.D.” pilot and his departure in Season 5, Episode 22, Alvin is a core member of the show’s cast and the One Chicago universe at large. In his final appearance, however, Alvin dies, meaning that the episode’s May 2018 air date marks Koteas’ definitive exit from the franchise.

After that final episode of “Chicago P.D.” Season 5 first aired, TVLine interviewed showrunner Rick Eid about the decision to kill off Alvin. “From a creative perspective, it was a decision that evolved organically,” he said, detailing how the series’ writers landed on Alvin’s death as a byproduct of a key storyline.

“From a business perspective, however, this was an extremely difficult decision,” Eid continued. “Elias is a terrific actor and a good person. He’s also been an important part of the show since the very beginning. So this part of the process was really challenging. But Elias handled the news like a true professional and remained committed to the show and his character until the final shot. We will miss him dearly.”

Koteas’ “Chicago P.D.” departure, then, was not the result of an interpersonal conflict or even a desire to move on to other work, but the notion that Alvin’s death was what was best for the series’ story at the time.

The Chicago P.D. writers’ room at one point considered Alvin’s survival

In his TVLine interview, Rick Eid characterized Alvin Olinsky’s death as a plot point the “Chicago P.D.” writers’ room decided would best serve the character’s storyline going into the Season 5 finale. He echoed this sentiment in another interview published around the same time by Entertainment Weekly. That said, during this latter conversation, Eid revealed that Alvin surviving that episode’s events was, at least at one point, something the writers’ room considered. “I think everything was on the table,” he said. “We went through practically every iteration we could think of, and we all just kept coming back to this idea as a really powerful idea. That’s ultimately how it all came about.”

Furthermore, Eid emphasized that accepting the “Chicago P.D.” team’s decision to kill off Elias Koteas’ character wasn’t easy. “Ultimately, the final decision is just really hard because everybody loves Elias, and he’s a great actor and a great person. It’s hard,” he said.

Based on these comments, Alvin’s death was something the “Chicago P.D.” writers decided made so much sense it was worth overcoming what was otherwise an aversion to writing Koteas off of the show.