Ellen Pompeo: Pick Me, Choose Me, Pay Me More

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

Comedy

4.4 • 164.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Join Alex in the studio for an interview with Ellen Pompeo. Ellen discusses all things Grey’s Anatomy and reveals her take on some of Meredith’s most iconic moments and dating disasters. She also opens up about her salary negotiation, becoming the highest paid woman on TV, knowing her worth, and overcoming double standards. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	What is up, Daddy, gang? It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy.
0:11.6	Ellen Pompeo, welcome to Call Her Daddy.
0:14.0	Thank you so much for having me.
0:15.8	I was just saying this to someone before you got here.
0:18.4	I have interviewed so many people my career now. Hands down,
0:23.2	I have never gotten starstruck. I'm a little starstruck right now. I am a huge fan.
0:29.9	Huge. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm a fan of yours too. Thank you. Your daughter is here
0:34.6	today. She is. She is in the daddy gang.
0:38.3	You have to just lightly tell the story of how this came to be because I am, I love her
0:42.9	right now.
0:43.2	I'm like, you are an OG.
0:44.8	Thank you for getting your mom on the show right now.
0:47.0	Tell us everything.
0:48.2	Okay.
0:48.6	So I was driving and sometimes, you know, she's in the car and I'll have her look at my messages
0:53.5	when they come through
0:54.5	because I can't look when I'm driving.
0:56.7	So she says, oh, you got an email from LEED, my publicist.
1:01.1	And mom, mom, you got invited on call her daddy.
1:06.3	And I was like, I did?
1:07.9	And she said, yeah, I said, well, well, I can't,
1:10.2	I can't do that because the daddy gang
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