Ellen Pompeois opening up about her relationship with her formerGrey’s AnatomycostarPatrick Dempsey.
During an appearance on Monday’s episode of Facebook Watch’sRed Table Talk, the television star, 49, was asked whether she was still friends with Dempsey, 52, who played her love interest onGrey’sbefore heleft the seriesin 2015.
“We haven’t spoken since he’s left the show,” Pompeo toldJada Pinkett Smith,Adrienne Banfield-NorrisandWillow Smith.
However, despite the years of silence, the actress shared that she has “no hard feelings toward him.”
Willow Smith, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, Ellen Pompeo and Jada Pinkett Smith.Stan Evans
Pompeo, who has starred inGrey’s Anatomysince it first premiered in 2005, went on to explain that it’s not unusual for actors to take a little time for themselves after leaving the program in order to “figure out who you are without the show.”
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“Typically when people leave the show they need to refind themselves,” she explained, adding that “the show takes up so much of your life.”
“So we have not spoken but I will always have a place in my heart for Patrick,” she added.
Pompeo last discussed her former costar toThe Hollywood Reporterwhen revealing that his exit from the series in 2015“was a defining moment, deal-wise” in her career.
During the episode, which centered around the topic of interracial marriage, Pompeo — who shares three children with husband Chris Ivery, who is black — also opened up about fighting racism and getting backlash for it.
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The television star recalled how A&E Network pulled a series focusing on the lives of family members within the KKK before it aired due to her vocalization against it.
“So I was like black fist emoji, black power,” she said. Although her tweet brought on backlash for the black emojis she used, Pompeo added, “I’m not appropriating culture. I’m just joining the fight.”
Pompeo, explained she felt as though the backlash she received was reverse racism, saying, “If you call me a white bitch then isn’t that judging me on the color of my skin? Why can’t I help a victory for black people because I’m white?”
source: people.com
