Why Leaving Gray’s Anatomy Will not Make Any Sense To Ellen Pompeo

The actress got here on board because the lead in 2005 and has caught by it for 20 years. The sequence was simply renewed for Season 22, Ellen, nonetheless, reduce her function from Season 21.

Talking on why she re-negotiated her Gray’s Anatomy contract, she mentioned, “I have been doing it for 20 years, so it was time to step away. I’ve three kids, and I like spending time with them, and I like being concerned of their lives. I am very fortunate to have the ability to get to work generally and take day off. I’ve a pleasant stability in my life.”

Nevertheless lately, when requested about leaving the present completely, Ellen instructed El País,  “The businesses that personal the present and stream the present make some huge cash from our photos and our voices and our faces. That may make no sense, emotionally or financially.”

She added, “If I have been to stroll away utterly, everyone will get to earn a living from my laborious work for 20 years and I would not make any cash. To me, it would not make any sense that everyone [else] will get to revenue off of my laborious work. Emotionally, the present means lots to individuals. I wish to have an angle of gratitude towards the present.” 

Ellen is at present starring within the Good American Household which has been getting rave critiques. 

Expressing her preliminary hesitation to step away from her character Meredith Gray, she instructed The Hollywood Reporter,  “If I used to be going to do one thing totally different, it actually needed to be really one thing totally different, proper? I am so properly often called Meredith Gray.”

Gray’s Anatomy was considered greater than a billion instances alone in 2024. Such is the large attain of the present.