Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo has damaged her silence for the primary time since asserting her departure from the beloved medical drama after 19 seasons.
The 53-year-old, who has starred as Meredith Grey on the sequence since 2005, shared a ultimate goodbye to followers after revealing she was stepping again as a full-time character earlier this 12 months.
In a message to Instagram followers, Pompeo stated she was “eternally grateful” for her time on the present and reassured Grey’s followers that she can be again to go to.
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“I am eternally grateful and humbled by the love and support you have all shown me, Meredith GREY and the show for 19 seasons!” Pompeo informed her 9.8 million followers.
“Through it all….none of it …would have been possible without the best fans in the world. You all are RIDERS and you all have made the ride so fun and ICONIC!!”
She added: “I love you madly and appreciate you right back. This isn’t your first time on the rollercoaster… you know the show must go on and I’ll definitely be back to visit. With a lot of love and immense gratitude Xo E.”
Pompeo is about to formally depart the sequence as an everyday character on February 23, when the subsequent episode is about to air within the United States.
However, she shouldn’t be completely leaving Grey’s. The actress will nonetheless be the present’s ubiquitous narrator and can seem on-screen within the occasional visitor spot.
She additionally stays an government producer on the present.
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Pompeo’s character Meredith will probably be written out of the present’s storyline with a transfer to Boston, the place the physician will dedicate her life to Alzheimer’s analysis.
Pompeo joined the forged of Grey’s Anatomy in 2005 and has appeared in additional than 400 episodes of the wildly fashionable soap.
She has been one of many world’s highest-paid actresses since 2017 after negotiating a staggering $US575,000 (approx. $860,000) per episode, together with bonuses.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in 2017, Pompeo mirrored on gender pay fairness within the TV and movie business.
“As a woman, what I know is you can’t approach anything from a point of view of ‘I don’t deserve’ or ‘I’m not going to ask for because I don’t want other people to get upset’,” she stated.
“And I know for a fact that when men go into these negotiations, they go in hard and ask for the world.”
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