Ellen Pompeo Says Goodbye to Gray’s Anatomy (For Now)

Ellen Pompeo has scrubbed out of Gray’s Anatomy.

Maybe for the ultimate time.

On Thursday afternoon, the veteran actress uploaded the next photograph of herself and included with it a message to all followers of the beloved medical drama.

“I’m eternally grateful and humbled by the love and help you’ve got all proven me, Meredith GREY and the present for 19 seasons!” wrote the star to open this caption.

She penned it one week after the Gray’s Anatomy winter finale aired on ABC.

Instantly after this episode, followers have been handled to a preview of what’s to come back on the sequence — highlighted by numerous Meredith’s co-workers toasting her goodbye earlier than the character strikes to the east coast.

Previous to Season 19, the community confirmed that Pompeo would solely be showing in a complete of 8 episodes this fall and winter.

The ultimate two of these installments will air in February and early March.

“By all of it….none of it …would have been potential with out the perfect followers on the earth. You all are RIDERS and also you all have made the journey so enjoyable and ICONIC!!” continued Pompeo on social media.

She concluded as follows:

I really like you madly and respect you proper again. This isn’t your first time on the rollercoaster… the present should go on and I’ll undoubtedly be again to go to.

With quite a lot of love and immense.

Pompeo stepped again from the long-running present this season to pursue exterior initiatives… together with Hulu’s adaptation of the 2009 movie Orphan, which follows a terrifying adoption story wherein a pair’s new daughter seems to be a grown lady masquerading as a toddler.

She made it clear quite a few instances previously that she was anxious for Gray’s Anatomy to finish.

However higher-ups simply stored throwing hundreds of thousands of {dollars} at her!

“​I really feel like I’m the tremendous naive one who retains saying, ‘However what’s the story going to be, what story are we going to inform?’” Pompeo stated in December 2021.

“And everybody’s like, ‘Who cares, Ellen? It makes a gazillion {dollars}.’”

Meredith’s storyline seems to have wrapped up with the surgeon’s resolution to depart Seattle for Boston, the place she accepted a place with the Catherine Fox Basis to analysis Alzheimer’s illness.

It’s price noting that, not like many different fictional medical doctors all through the historical past of Gray’s Anatomy, Meredith wasn’t killed off.

Her new job actually leaves the door open for visitor appearances.

ABC, in fact, will probably must renew Gray’s Anatomy for one more season for this to occur.

Are you listening, executives?!?

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