Ellen Pompeo is revealing the exact moment her daughter prescribed herself a break from her mom’s hit medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Twenty years ago, we were introduced to the hallowed halls of Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, where viewers were put through an emotional rollercoaster — but one part in particular didn’t sit well with Pompeo’s daughter, Stella Luna.
“It gets to a point where they get to be 10 or 11 and all the classmates start watching it and she says ‘Mommy, can I watch it?’” Pompeo said during a Wednesday appearance on the “Jennifer Hudson Show.” “And I can’t believe it sometimes [that] 10 and 11 year olds watch the show because I know what was going on in those early years.”
Pompeo admitted to watching a “few seasons” with her daughter, who is now 15 — but says her daughter stopped watching the series after a pivotal death took place.
“I think she had it, a lot of people do, when they see 007, when they see George O’Malley die, they say, ’I’m done, I just can’t do it anymore,” Pompeo said, referring to the emotional death of T.R. Knight’s character.
“So I think she made it as far as that,” she concluded.
In a March appearance on the podcast “Call Her Daddy,” Pompeo said Knight’s character’s death on the show hit her the hardest— and that it was emotionally taxing to film.
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