Ellen Pompeo on the Grey’s Anatomy Pay Gap

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McDreamy got McBodied by Meredith Grey. On Call Her Daddy, Ellen Pompeo discussed how hard it was to fight for pay parity with Patrick Dempsey on Grey’s Anatomy. “To be completely fair, the television game was so different then. He had done 13 pilots before me,” Pompeo told host Alex Cooper. “Nothing personal to him, just in general, only a man can have 13 failed TV pilots and their quote keeps going up, right?”

While still trying not to shade Dempsey too much, Pompeo explained that it was her titular role, and thus should have been her big paycheck. “He was a bigger star than I was at that point. No one knew who I was. Everybody knew who he was, so he did deserve that money,” she said. “It’s…

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