I am not so closed minded that I don't recognize the fact that people who annoy the living hell out of me and are intolerably self-righteous are also capable of doing good things. The same goes for Isaiah Washington, who said some bad things, but is also doing a lot of positive work with the Gondobay Manga Foundation, a Sierre Leone children's charity he founded.

To soothe any bad feelings he had from the on-set altercation with Patrick Dempsey during which it was alleged that Washington used a homophobic slur, he says immersed himself in his children's charity, the Gondobay Manga Foundation.

The actor also tells the newspaper that he and his wife are considering adoption since the trip.

"There is one boy, about 8 years old, who I fell in love with [in Sierra Leone]," he says. "But I'm not interested in stripping him of his culture. My wife and I have three kids already, but we have talked about [adoption], and we're not ruling it out."

Washington goes on to say that he feels "safer" in Sierra Leone than in L.A., because no one is trying to "hurt" him — except maybe to take his money. I'm sure I know some actors on a certain Seattle-based hospital drama who wouldn't mind if he just stayed there.

[People]