Patrick Dempsey Confirms Ellen Pompeo’s Meredith Grey Has Coronavirus on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
usmagazine.comPatrick Dempsey confirmed speculation that Ellen Pompeo’s Grey’s Anatomy character is battling COVID-19 after he made an unexpected return to the series in a dream sequence during the season 17 premiere.“I was like, what a great opportunity for people and how great it would be for the fans, really, to see everybody reunited in this sort of bizarre way,” the 54-year-old actor said on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday, November 18. “And [showrunner Krista Vernoff] came up with this concept where I would come and visit [Meredith] in her COVID dream.”Fans were surprised when Dempsey, who played Dr.
Derek Shepherd for 11 seasons until his 2015 exit, showed up at the end of the November 12 premiere. During the episode, Meredith passed out in.
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