I met with Shonda and we worked together to give Lexie's story appropriate closure. The actress told TVLine at the time, "Earlier this year, I made the decision that season eight would be my last on Grey's Anatomy. She's the half-sister of Meredith, which came as a shock to, well, everyone.Īfter finally finding love with Mark Sloan, Lexie's death hit viewers hard. She died in the plane crash that ended the eighth season of the show, leaving everyone (but especially Mark) heartbroken. I stayed a bit longer than I should have."įans have had a few exciting moments in more recent seasons, though, as McDreamy has appeared on a handful of episodes.īright-eyed and ready to save some lives, Lexie Grey started as an intern at Seattle Grace in the show's third season. I probably should have moved on a couple of years earlier. It was time for me to move on with other things and other interests. "I think after a certain period of time, no matter how much money you make, you want control out of your own schedule," the actor said of the decision. It's given me the opportunity to do everything. To me, it felt like that was the only way to make Meredith and Derek's magic remain true and forever frozen in time."ĭempsey told PEOPLE, ""I'm very grateful for Grey's Anatomy. Because I really couldn't have the idea that he just turned out to be a bad guy who walked out on his wife and kids be a true story. "As painful as it was for me as a storyteller, because I had never really thought that was going to happen, it preserved what felt true to me, was that Derek was going to have to die in order for that love to remain honest. It was just too much.įans felt that the character death was unfair, but creator Shonda Rhimes stood by it as her only option: "Meredith and Derek's love had to remain Meredith and Derek's love," Rhimes said. To make it worse, the viewer got to hear Shepherd's thought process through it all, and know that he knew what medical attention he needed. In a truly heartbreaking episode, Derek was hit by a car while helping the victims of a crash, and then unable to be saved by a lackluster medical team at another hospital. Their relationship turned into one of the most iconic in television. McDreamy after what was supposed to be a one-night stand with Meredith Grey.
She added, "I gotta keep doing it, man, because we're touching lives and making a difference."ĭerek Shepherd's nickname says it all.
She told the host: "And, you know, these numbers - there's just no end in sight with streaming, and the show is so popular." So at some point I have to wrap it up."īut just one month later, in October 2018, Pompeo told Ellen DeGeneres that she would be staying on for the foreseeable future. I still care very much about the show and I think that it takes a lot of energy. I still am fighting every day to make everything surrounding this show, the quality of the show, the storytelling, I'm still fighting for everything I can, for the quality to be good, for the actors to be happy, whether that's well received or not. I've given it 200 percent of my energy and my love and my time and my commitment and my dedication. I have definitely played this out for everything that I possibly could. I'm really looking forward to it and that's the beauty of my situation.
So it's definitely time for change in my life. I can't be an absentee mom if they're teenagers, I have to be around to whip their butts. Pompeo originally expressed her desire to leave the show, telling Entertainment Weekly in September 2018, "My children are getting older so I want to be more available to them now. Meredith is still on the show, but only after being fired and doing community service after committing insurance fraud. She's had a few love interests since the death of her husband and is mom to three kids. If you haven't seen the show, it includes the death of her friends, a hospital shooting, a plane crash, the death of her husband, insurance fraud. Meredith has been through a lot over the years. In the first episode of the series, Meredith slept with Derek Shepherd, only to find out that he was not just her coworker, but her superior. The titular character of the show, audiences were introduced to Meredith Grey on the morning of her first day as an intern at Seattle Grace hospital.
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