“I wasn’t salty about him getting what he got.
I was salty that they didn’t value me as much as they valued him.
And they never will.”
Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Credit:Richard Cartwright/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; Vivian Zink/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
So he did deserve that money.
I’m not saying he didn’t deserve that money."
Still, it stung that she was headlining the medical drama and getting paid less than her male costar.
Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’.Adam Larkey/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
“So I wasn’t salty about him getting what he got.
I was salty that they didn’t value me as much as they valued him.
And they never will.
you’re free to’t just be like, ‘Yes.
Let’s go,'” she said.
This is amazing, but I happen to notice this.
And I really think that all the women deserve a bump.
“I see exactly how muchGrey’s Anatomymakes for ABC Disney,” she said.
“I get to see the number.
It’s my face.
It’s my voice.
I’ve done so much work promoting the show all over the world for the past 20 years.
I am the Disney princess of that franchise,” she said.
“So I have this data to back it up.
I know the show has generated this much money.
I definitely deserve a percentage of that, and it’s possible for you to do the same.”
Dempsey, who played her characters on-again, off-again love interest Dr. Derek Shepherd (a.k.a.
McDreamy), starred on the series for its first 11 seasons before exiting the show in 2015.
He later returned in one of Meredith’s dream sequences in season 17.
Watch Pompeo discuss the stars’ pay gap in the podcast above.
