Ellen Pompeo Confesses She No Longer Has The ‘Stamina’ To Continue Watching ‘Grey’s Anatomy With Daughter Stella

Ellen Pompeo

Grey’s Anatomy’s 19 seasons are challenging for Ellen Pompeo to finish. The 53-year-old actress talked about her experiences on Grey’s Anatomy with co-star Katherine Heigl in a recent Variety story. They also discussed whether or not their children had seen the show.

When Stella, 12, was in sixth standard, all her classmates had already seen the series, Ellen Pompeo remarked, which seemed a bit weird to her considering the material of the early seasons. Her daughter, she says, begged her to let her watch the show since she was the only student who had not seen it. Thus, she ultimately allowed her and she started during her summer holidays. She recalls thinking at first that it was amazing and decided to see it together but there were so many episodes that she felt she no longer had the stamina to sit through the entire show.

Ellen Pompeo Aka Meredith Grey Left Anatomy To Be More Present With Her Children

Ellen felt strange that although she recorded every episode she would not be able to see it entirely. Along with her husband Chris Ivery, Ellen Pompeo is the parents of three children: Sienna May, Stella, and Eli Christopher, who is five. Grey’s Anatomy’s 19th season saw Ellen Pompeo walk away from her recognizable character as Meredith. She told Drew Barrymore in December 2022 that she has three children and she takes care of all so, she says, being there for them is incredibly vital for her. She wants to be more present with them

The celebrity has kept her personal life very quiet, but on occasion, she has talked about her kids. In a 2016 interview, Ellen Pompeo talked about the value of having role models for her girls, saying that she ensures introducing them to “powerful as well as beautiful, strong Black women,” whether they are on TV or in magazines.