Kerry Washington Says ‘Scandal’ Had to Rewrite Russian Hacking Plot Line

Rather than art imitating life, according to Kerry Washington, life is now imitating art. Washington, star of the hit ABC show Scandal, stopped by Ellen on Tuesday and talked about changes that had to be made to the shows plot because the real life US election was hitting a little too close to what had been written for the show months before. There was one storyline in particular that the writers never saw coming in real life.