Ellen Pompeo has starred in “Gray’s Anatomy” since its debut in 2005, and it feels like she doesn’t plan to depart the present anytime quickly.

Though Pompeo’s character, Meredith Gray, has had much less display screen time since 2022, she lately shared why she has no intentions of stepping away from the ABC medical drama for good.

“That will make no sense, emotionally or financially. The present was streamed greater than a billion occasions in 2024. Greater than a billion occasions,” Pompeo defined to El País. “The businesses that personal the present and stream the present make some huge cash from our photos and our voices and our faces.”

“If I had been to stroll away fully, all people will get to become profitable from my exhausting work for 20 years and I wouldn’t make any cash,” Pompeo added. “To me, it doesn’t make any sense that everyone will get to revenue off of my exhausting work. And emotionally, the present means quite a bit to folks. I wish to have an angle of gratitude towards the present.”

Created by Shonda Rhimes and Michelle Lirtzman, “Gray’s Anatomy” has run for 444 episodes as of April 10, and is at present on its twenty first season. Solid members have come and gone within the present’s now decade-long life span, however a few of the extra iconic “Gray’s” actors embrace Sandra Oh, Patrick Dempsey, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr., Kevin McKidd, Justin Chambers, Jesse Williams, Sara Ramirez, Jessica Capshaw and Eric Dane.

Elsewhere within the interview, Pompeo mentioned why she determined to affix the Hulu restricted collection “Good American Household.”

“Properly, it is a restricted collection, so I gained’t seem as this character once more,” she mentioned. “I used to be simply on the lookout for one thing that was very completely different from Meredith Gray, and this provide offered itself.”