'Grey's Anatomy' star Ellen Pompeo received warning about massive $20M TV salary

'Grey's Anatomy' star Ellen Pompeo received warning about massive $20M TV salary

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"Grey's Anatomy" star Ellen Pompeo was warned ahead of her salary leak in 2018. The actress negotiated a $20 million salary for her role as Meredith Grey in the ABC series.

"I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ And he was like, 'Well, I just don't want you to think that everyone's going to go in and cheer for you and clap for you and bow to you and think you're the dopest thing ever, because there's going to be a lot of people who are not happy for you.' And that had never occurred to me."

Pompeo noted it can be "hard for people to celebrate other people," especially when that person has "something that resembles something that they want."

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