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He was married to Adele Webber until her death and is now married to Catherine Fox. He is also the biological father of Maggie Pierce and stepfather of Jackson Avery.
Not much is known about Richard's childhood. His mother, Gail , died of pancreatic cancer when he was ten. He has a brother named Chris Webber and a sister.
During residency, he grew close with Ellis Grey. They started having an affair together, planning to leave their spouses to have a life together.
Ellis told her husband, but Richard overheard that she was on the shortlist for the Harper Avery Award, and decided to stay with his wife, Adele. He was jealous of her career and he didn't want to feel that way for the rest of his life. Richard started having trouble seeing, and not completing simple surgeries. It turned out that he had developed a tumor, pressing against his optic nerve, and let Derek operate to remove it, under the radar of all the surgical floor. Later, he fought with Derek to write him out for surgery.
