Taylor Swift Wrote 'The Biggest Check' to Ellen Pompeo for Children's Charity

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Ellen Pompeo is sharing the love for Taylor Swift! During an appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show, the 55-year-old Grey’s Anatomy actress opened up about how the 35-year-old pop star did something very generous for her. “Ten years ago you were in a Taylor Swift video?” host Jennifer Hudson asked, to which she said “I was.” Keep reading to find out more… “Actually, I forgot about Taylor, so that’s true, I do get a lot of points for that,” she said of her cameo in the 2014 clip for “Bad Blood.” “That got me so much mileage with both of the girls for a stretch,” she said of daughters Stella, 15, Sienna, 10, and Eli, 8, with her music producer husband Chris Ivery. “And Taylor is such a good girl and I didn’t know her and she invited me to be in the video and I thought, ‘Oh that would be fun.’ I went and did the video, it was the easiest thing, like an hour or two.” Then, she revealed details of Taylor‘s big donation. “At the time, Chris and I, we do a lot of volunteering for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles here and they have an amazing program at Children’s where they make music for the babies in the NICU and for the parents who have to go to work all day and they can’t be with the kids,” she recounted. “They record their voices singing nursery rhymes or telling them stories and they play it for the babies in the day when the parents can’t be there.

The babies respond to it and it makes their outcomes more positive.” Knowing that she needed funding, Ellen said “I just got up the hooks and asked Taylor, ‘Could you write me a big old check for Children’s?’ and she knew me all but 20 minutes and that girl wrote me the biggest check without blinking an eye.” Find out which 17 celebs are now billionaires!