Ellen Pompeo Says This Scene Made Her Daughter Cease Watching ‘Gray’s Anatomy’

Ellen Pompeo is revealing why her daughter was left heartbroken by Gray’s Anatomy.

The actress, 55, stopped by The Jennifer Hudson Present on Wednesday, April 2, the place she opened up about what her household thinks of the hit medical drama, by which she stars as Meredith Gray. Sharing that her husband of 18 years Chris Ivery has by no means even seen it, Pompeo admitted her 15-year-old daughter Stella was a fan.

“It will get to some extent the place they get to be 10 or 11 and all of the classmates begin watching it and she or he says ‘Mommy, can I watch it?'” she defined. “And I can not consider it typically.”

She and Stella watched “a number of seasons” till one scene left her too distraught to maintain going.

“I believe she had it, and lots of people do, after they see 007,” Pompeo recalled, referring to the dying of T.R. Knight’s George O’Malley, who entered the hospital as an unknown affected person earlier than revealing himself by tracing ‘007’ on Meredith’s palm. 

“Once they see that George O’Malley died, they are saying, ‘I am accomplished, I simply can’t do it anymore,’” she continued. “So I believe she made it so far as that.”

In February, Pompeo, who additionally shares daughter Sienna, 10, and Eli, 8, with Ivery, advised PEOPLE that she and Stella each received emotional when the episode unveiled George’s id.

“She actually cried,” the Good American Household star mentioned. “I needed to movie it and I could not maintain it collectively.”

Pompeo added that her 10-year-old daughter Sienna has just lately sparked an curiosity within the present as properly.

“I nonetheless assume there’s a whole lot of inappropriate stuff that 10-year-olds shouldn’t be seeing,” Pompeo mentioned. “So no judgment on different dad and mom, however I simply do not wish to reply questions. I get some bizarre questions as a result of I used to be within the scene. ‘So, why are your panties on the bulletin board?’ Actually do not wish to speak about that proper now.”

The season 5 finale is an unforgettable episode that shocked all Gray’s Anatomy followers — and the solid, too. The present’s creator, Shonda Rhimes, just lately advised Leisure Weekly that she made positive the second was a shock for everybody, however “sure members of the crew” on set.

“No one knew who George was. No one,” she recalled. “T.R. was decided that he can be the physique mendacity on the working desk. He can be the physique that you simply noticed each single time, which is why you bought to see his lovely blue eyes.”

“However he was sporting a whole lot of make-up,” she famous. “I do assume we stored it actually secret.”

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Gray’s Anatomy airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on ABC.