Patrick Dempsey discusses his surprise “Grey’s Anatomy” season 17 premiere return during an appearance on Wednesday’s “Ellen DeGeneres Show”.
Dempsey’s character Derek Shepherd, who tragically died five and a half years ago, came back in a beach dream after Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) collapsed in the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital parking lot.
As DeGeneres quizzes Dempsey on his big return, he says he and Pompeo brainstormed together and thought “how great it would be for the fans to see everyone reunited in this sort of bizarre way.” “And to the credit of the writers, Krista [Vernoff] came up with this great idea where I will come and visit her in her COVID dream,” Dempsey says.
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