Grey's Anatomy Star Reveals Cringeworthy Sex Scene

Ellen Pompeo didn’t pick, choose or love this sex scene.

The main actor of “Grey’s Anatomy,” who has portrayed Dr. Meredith Grey since its premiere in 2005, recently looked back on a sex scene that still makes her (and fans) uncomfortable: The scene where Meredith slept with T.R. Knight’s character, George O’Malley.

Ellen shared with Alex Cooper on the March 19th episode of “Call Her Daddy” that TR and she are such close friends, so much so that when they had to perform a love scene together, they ended up crying. They both shed tears.

In the second season’s later episode, Meredith, deeply saddened by Patrick Dempsey‘s character Derek or McDreamy, impulsively chooses to sleep with George. As they engage in intimacy, Meredith weeps profusely, causing her friend, who has harbored feelings for Meredith since the very first episode, to angrily leave the room.

She went on to say, “The situation felt really uneasy and awkward, and I wasn’t keen on participating.” Later, she expressed that she hadn’t wanted to take part in it either. When we eventually shot the scene, it turned out terribly.

Unfortunately, the situation didn’t improve after that point. As Ellen pointed out, they encountered a problem with excessive movement. To put it bluntly, we were forced to reshoot that scene not once, but twice. We had to repeat it and make two attempts.

One silver lining, however, is that nearly 20 years later, Ellen still hasn’t watched the scene.

She admitted, “I haven’t witnessed that particular scene, but I can’t say how it was filmed, presented, or even how it ended and was put together. Yet, it moved me to tears – genuine ones – throughout the entire sequence.

Indeed, there are aspects of Meredith’s early character development that Ellen finds challenging to revisit. Specifically, when Meredith confessed her feelings for Derek, who was still trying to reconcile with Addison Montgomery, portrayed by Kate Walsh, in the operating room (a scene that takes place just before she sleeps with George), Ellen’s response was simply: “Girl, take a hike.

Keep reading for more of the series’ most shocking moments…

During the first episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” the fresh intern Meredith Grey (played by Ellen Pompeo) got quite a surprise when she discovered that the handsome man she spent a night with at the bar, who was in fact her new superior, Dr. Derek Shepherd – played by Patrick Dempsey – was none other than a famous surgeon. Whoops!

In the season one finale, viewers were equally taken aback as poor Meredith, when Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) unexpectedly appeared at Seattle Grace, walking straight up to Mer and Derek, introducing herself with a line that would become famous: “It seems I’ve been sharing my husband with someone else.

During its second season, the popular show “Grey’s Anatomy” was aired immediately after the Super Bowl, causing viewers to hold their breath as Meredith reached into a body cavity containing a live bomb to prevent it from exploding. Just when everyone let out a sigh of relief, thinking that bomb squad chief Dylan (played by guest star Kyle Chandler) had safely taken the explosive away, it detonated, tragically injuring him instead.

Spectators witnessed Izzie, played by Katherine Heigl, developing affection for Denny Duquette, portrayed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who was longing for a heart transplant during the latter part of season two. Just as she did, her heart went out to him. Unfortunately, when her daring scheme to sever his LVAD wire in an attempt to push him up the transplant list backfired catastrophically, leading to Denny’s demise in the season finale, it became clear that Grey’s Anatomy was not about providing the fairy-tale endings we yearned for.

In season three, it was more shocking between two events: Meredith’s near-drowning after falling into the icy waters following the ferry crash, or her subsequent confession about having stopped attempting to save herself.

In the final moments of season three, I found myself eagerly anticipating the arrival of a new character – a surgical intern named Lexie Grey (played by Chyler Leigh). The day before she started at Seattle Grace, my heart raced as she crossed paths with Derek for the first time, reminiscent of his encounter with Mer two seasons prior, albeit without any romantic entanglements. Later, she introduced herself to George O’Malley in the intern locker room. To make matters even more intriguing, I discovered that Lexie was Meredith’s younger half-sister, one of two daughters Thatcher Grey and his second wife Susan had raised. And just like that, a fresh dynamic was added to the already captivating mix at Seattle Grace.

Approximately two-and-a-half seasons following his death, Denny reappeared, and his spirit was engaging in an intimate encounter with Izzie. In a scene that remains one of the most absurd in the series’ timeline, the ghostly Denny served as a symbol to both viewers and Izzie herself that something was amiss. This unease was eventually confirmed to be advanced stage IV melanoma, which had infiltrated various parts of her body, including her brain.

Instead of assuming Izzie would meet her end in the season five finale, George’s mysterious disappearance should have tipped us off that something was amiss with character O’Malley. When Meredith eventually figured out the injured man on the operating table who had been struck by a bus while saving a woman was writing “007” – his cruel moniker from earlier seasons – she attempted to warn the surgeons treating him, but it was too late. He flatlined and passed away.

Categorize this event as: The Disturbing Gun Incident in the Chronicles of Grey’s. In the season finale of the sixth year, a grieving spouse, following the hospital’s merger with neighboring Mercy West, entered the premises armed and desperate for an escape from life. Tragically, several doctors were killed, many more injured, and the horrific sight of Bailey (Chandra Wilson) being dragged by her feet from under a patient’s bed remains seared into our minds. Fortunately, she made it through. Unfortunately, Mer and Derek’s unborn child did not survive. After he was shot, she assumed he had passed away and suffered a traumatic miscarriage.

Two years after a devastating hospital shooting, Shonda Rhimes felt it was appropriate to test the mettle of a group of doctors once more. In the final episode of season 8, a plane carrying Meredith, Derek, Cristina Yang (portrayed by Sandra Oh), Lexie, Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) and Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw) en route to Boise, Idaho for conjoined twins’ surgery, crashed in the wilderness. This left them stranded, injured, with no one back home aware of their predicament. The accident resulted in the loss of Mark and Lexie’s lives, severe injury to Arizona’s leg, and potential permanent damage to Derek’s hand.

In a heartfelt farewell for Cristina Yang, portrayed by Sandra Oh, at the end of season 10 on Grey’s Anatomy, they chose an unexpected twist: reappearance of ex-husband Preston Burke, played by Isaiah Washington, who had left her at the altar in season three. Remarkably, the show brought back Washington after his departure, which was marked by a regrettable use of a derogatory term towards co-star T.R. Knight, adding an element of surprise to the storyline.

In the season 10 finale, the series bid farewell to Cristina and introduced her replacement as chief of cardio-thoracic surgery – Dr. Maggie Pierce. And in the closing scene, the character portrayed by Kelly McCreary told Richard (James Pickens Jr.) that she was none other than Dr. Ellis Grey’s daughter. This revelation left both Richard and the viewers stunned, as they discovered that he had a daughter and that Meredith had another sister.

As a lifestyle expert, I must confess, it took me by surprise when, with merely a few episodes left in season 11, Derek met his untimely end in a tragic head-on collision, having just saved a family from a car crash moments earlier. The fact that Patrick Dempsey, who had recently extended his contract on the show, was leaving us so abruptly made it all the more unexpected.

In hindsight, perhaps killing off Mer’s husband was the only viable choice for Shonda Rhimes to write out the character without completely devaluing an 11-year love story. However, that didn’t make the emotional impact any less profound.

In the course of my journey, the events of season 12’s ninth episode were particularly harrowing for me. I was viciously assaulted by a patient, leaving me with a broken jaw that needed to be wired shut – a necessary measure to save my hearing. The acting prowess of Ellen Pompeo, as she portrayed my panic when my children couldn’t visit during recovery, left me utterly spellbound and speechless.

The series might choose to convey Alex Karev’s sudden departure following Justin Chambers’ exit during season 16 by portraying him as writing letters to Jo (Camilla Luddington), Mer, and Bailey. In these letters, he reveals that he reconnected with Izzie (not mentioned by name) years after she abandoned him, only to discover that she had been raising their twins on a farm. This new family life in a different location appealed to him more than his existence in Seattle. If anyone claims they foresaw this development, we’ll prove them a liar.

In the seventeenth season, viewers witnessed the sad demise of character Dr. Andrea “Andrew” DeLuca, portrayed by Giacomo Gianniotti. After battling his mental health issues, DeLuca had risen to the position of attending physician at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. However, in a twist characteristic of Grey’s Anatomy, the life of Dr. DeLuca, who seemed to be back on track, was abruptly ended when he was stabbed by an associate of a human trafficker.

2025-03-19 16:47

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