Ellen Pompeo said she was “salty” at the beginning of “Grey’s Anatomy” when co-star Patrick Dempsey was paid more than her, even though the show was named after her character, Meredith Grey.
As she told Alex Cooper on the latest Call Her Daddy podcast Wednesday, the actress and producer resented the fact that, as the “namesake of the show,” she “deserved the same [pay] and then that was harder to get.”
However, she admitted that Dempsey, who had a number of films and TV credits under his belt at that point, was better known, while the ABC show was her very first TV pilot.