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Ellen Pompeo: Okay, THIS is Why I Left Gray’s Anatomy

Editorial Board Published March 19, 2025
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Ellen Pompeo is scrubbing out of Gray’s Anatomy.

In a means she by no means has earlier than.

The actress is at the moment beginning in Good American Household, a model new drama on Hulu whose first two episodes had been made accessible on March 19.

The position marks Pompeo’s first lead since she sky-rocketed to fame again in 2005 as Meredith Gray, the title character of the longest-running medical drama in TV historical past.

Ellen Pompeo attends the Particular Premiere of Hulu’s “Good American Family” at Administrators Guild Of America on March 13, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Picture by JC Olivera/Getty Photos)

Again in 2022, Pompeo pared down her display screen time considerably on Gray’s Anatomy… though she nonetheless serves as a producer and nonetheless makes the occasional cameo.

“I didn’t know what I was going to do. I just knew that I really couldn’t do Grey’s anymore,” Pompeo defined this week on the Name Her Daddy podcast of that call.

“It was to the point where I really just felt like an animal at the zoo. I’m a big believer in destiny. I thought, if there’s something else I’m meant to do, it’s gonna find me. But I know I have to leave this.”

Pompeo, who earned $20 million per episode in her final ABC contract, had hinted up to now that she was accomplished with appearing.

However right here she is once more.

Ellen Pompeo as MeredithMeredith seeks recommendation from Amelia on this Gray’s Anatomy scene. (ABC)

“Sometimes you know you’d like opportunities to come while you’re doing something, so you have an easy exit,” the actress mentioned on this podcast. “You have a soft landing – and it turns out I actually did get a soft landing. But I was sort of thinking like nothing’s coming along, and I really believe in this town, if they want you, they will find you.”

When a brand new supply didn’t instantly current itself, Pompeo started to have some doubts. As anybody would.

“I’m on TV for 20 years, the biggest show ever, like everybody knows who I am. “Clearly, these people don’t want me,” she mentioned of her emotions on the time.

“They’re not coming for me. No one’s offering me this [and] no one’s offering me that. I mean I’ve been offered a few things, obviously, but like could never make it work.”

Ellen Pompeo on the FinaleEllen Pompeo seems to be down on this scene from the emotional Gray’s Anatomy season finale. (ABC)

Good American Household stars Ellen Pompeo, Mark Duplass, Imogen Religion Reid, Dulé Hill, Christina Hendricks, Sarayu Blue and Jenny O’Hara.

It’s based mostly on a real story and right here is the official synopsis:

Informed from a number of factors of view, as a method to discover problems with perspective, bias, and trauma, this compelling drama is impressed by the disturbing tales surrounding a Midwestern couple who adopts a woman with a uncommon type of dwarfism.

However as they start to boost her alongside their three organic kids, thriller emerges round her age and background, and so they slowly begin to suspect she is probably not who she says she is.

As they defend their household from the daughter they’ve grown to imagine is a menace, she fights her personal battle to confront her previous and what her future holds, in a showdown that finally performs out within the tabloids and the courtroom.

Meredith Grey ImageAs Meredith Gray, Ellen Pompeo flashes a really large smile on this scene from Gray’s Anatomy. (AbC)

Up to now, it was difficult for the star to step away from a program that shot for 10 months a 12 months.

In accordance with Pompeo, although, occasions have modified and “it’s become a little easier” to tackle different roles since networks have lowered their orders to fifteen episodes.

“But anyway, I had really stepped away, and I had said I really have to step away I can’t do it anymore,” she added on the podcast.

“And if nothing else comes, nothing else comes. It’s my destiny. [If] no one wants me, that’s okay, I can swallow that pill like I swallow everything else and at least I’m financially okay.”

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