Ellen Pompeo Reveals Which Grey’s Anatomy Storyline She Was “Deeply Against”

Ellen Pompeo knows Meredith Grey doesn’t play by the rules. 

And that’s why she was appalled by a recent Grey’s Anatomy storyline that saw her character turn in Lena Waithe’s Dr. Evynn Moore for gaming the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) system. 

In the March episode, Waithe’s Evynn had lied to Meredith—who has been working to find a cure for Alzheimer’s for several seasons—about her wife’s diagnosis with the neurodegenerative disease in order to get her a life-saving kidney transplant. Pompeo, however, was not sold by what Meredith did next. 

“The Meredith Grey that I’ve created would have always been like, ‘I’m pissed that you lied, [but] let’s figure out how to game the system together to get you this f–king liver,” Pompeo explained to Variety in an article published April 29. “F–k the system. The system is broken.’”

Waithe ultimately convinced Pompeo to go through with the episode, saying Meredith might have felt compelled to report to UNOS given that her current love interest Dr. Nick Marsh (Scott Speedman) is a transplant surgeon.