'Gray's Anatomy' followers could not have seen the final of Ellen Pompeo as Meredith Gray — right here's what we find out about her attainable return

• Ellen Pompeo hinted she is likely to be again as Meredith Gray on “Gray’s Anatomy.”
• Pompeo’s final look as a sequence common was in a season 19 episode that aired in February.
• In dialog with Katherine Heigl for Selection, Pompeo mentioned it is “not a whole goodbye.”

Some “Gray’s Anatomy” followers had been devastated when Meredith Gray (Ellen Pompeo) left the present in season 19. However she will not be completely gone.

In a dialog with former costar Katherine Heigl as a part of Selection’s “Actors on Actors” sequence revealed this week, Pompeo confirmed that because of “a bit of little bit of trickery,” her character is not utterly gone for good.

“I will probably be making some appearances hopefully subsequent yr, if I can discover a while,” Pompeo informed Heigl. “No, it is not a whole goodbye. And I believe we have an fascinating story to inform.”

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Pompeo bid farewell to followers in a November 2022 Instagram submit, just a few months earlier than her ultimate episode as a sequence common really aired in February.

“I’m eternally grateful and humbled by the love and assist you have got all proven me, Meredith GREY and the present for 19 seasons!” she wrote. “By way of all of it….none of it …would have been attainable with out one of the best followers on the earth. You all are RIDERS and also you all have made the experience so enjoyable and ICONIC!!”

In that submit, Pompeo additionally teased that she would “positively be again to go to.”

As Insider’s Esme Mazzeo beforehand reported, Meredith Gray formally left Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital in Seattle to do Alzheimer’s analysis on the Catherine Fox Basis in Boston within the February 23, 2023 episode titled “I will Observe the Solar.” It marked Pompeo’s ultimate look as a sequence common.

Pompeo made yet one more look after that, within the Might 18 season 19 finale, when a number of of the docs went to Boston. And now, it appears like there could possibly be extra to come back in season 20 or past, if the history-making ABC hit retains chugging alongside.

Pompeo, who has starred within the medical drama since its first season, stays an government producer on the sequence. Selection reported that might be the case when it broke the information in August 2022 that Pompeo would take a diminished on-screen position on the medical drama, solely showing in eight episodes of “Gray’s Anatomy” season 19. 

As Pompeo and Heigl mentioned of their latest dialog, Pompeo is stepping away partly to star in a brand new Hulu present, tentatively titled “The Orphan,” which is about to start out manufacturing in September. The restricted sequence will inform the story of Natalia Grace, a Ukrainian orphan whose adoptive mother and father declare she’s really an grownup con artist.

“Gray’s Anatomy” is at present streaming on Hulu and Netflix.