Ellen Pompeo recalled using Patrick Dempsey’s 2015 departure from Grey’s Anatomy to start negotiating for all that she deserved as its lead.“When Patrick left, I had something to prove,” Pompeo, 50, told Dax Shepard on the Monday, August 24, episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast. “He left season 11, and then I was renegotiating season 12, so I could have left, because the man left, which is not the story I want to tell.”Pompeo, who has played Dr.
Meredith Grey since the ABC series’ 2005 beginning, decided to bet on herself after her costar walked away.“They had put that in my head for so long, that I was no good without him,” the Massachusetts native recalled. “I had to rewrite the ending of that story and, say, well, ‘Who’s right?
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