Grey’s Anatomy might be on their 18th season, but Ellen Pompeo has avoided watching the medical drama with her daughter Stella Ivery—and she’s ‘terrified’For when it will be.
Admittedly, Grey’s isn’t necessarily the most child-friendly show out there, a fact which Pompeo seems to agree with.
A recent episode of her podcast “Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo,” Pompeo credited the major sexual content on the show for being the main reason her 12-year-old daughter doesn’t watch her mom on-screen— even though Stella’s friends do.
Malcolm Gladwell was interviewed by Gladwell to discuss the scandalous nature and origins of the show. “Even though network TV, there was a lot of stuff happening,” adding: “It was [a]Pretty racy network show at the time.”
She shared that she does eventually plan to sit with her daughter, but she’s not exactly in any rush.
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When Gladwell suggested that perhaps the level of explicit content had been ‘distorted’ by Pompeo after such a long run—the actress quipped about one particular very vivid NSFW scene.
“Listen, there’s one scene, for sure, where a character — not me — had sex with a ghost,” she said. “Had oral sex.”
Of course, fans of the show will remember the storyline Pompeo is referring to. In season five, it was Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl) began to have realistic hallucinations of her former fiancé Denny, and at one point even had sex with him in her mind. It was later revealed that the hallucinations were a symptom of Izzie’s cancerous brain tumor.
“”I’m sure that I don’t feel like having this conversation with my 12-year old, you know?” Pompeo laughed.