"That girl wrote me the biggest check without blinking an eye": Ellen Pompeo talks about Taylor Swift donating to a Children's Charity 10 years ago

Grey's Anatomy actress Ellen Pompeo candidly talks about her first time meeting American superstar Taylor Swift during her interview on The Jennifer Hudson Show. During the show, Jennifer Hudson brings up the topic of Taylor Swift by asking,

"10 years ago you were in a Taylor Swift video?" - Hudson asked.

To this, Pompeo replied that she gets "cool points" for this from her kids. In her words,

"Actually, I forgot about Taylor, so that’s true, I do get a lot of points for that" - Ellen Pompeo shared.

Ellen, who was a part of Taylor Swift's crew in her 2014 music video, Bad Blood, said,

"That got me so much mileage with both of the girls for a stretch... And Taylor is such a good girl and I didn’t know her and she invited me to be in the video and I thought, ‘Oh that would be fun.’... I went and did the video, it was the easiest thing, like an hour or two." - she added.

How did Taylor Swift give Ellen Pompeo "the biggest check" to donate to a Children's Charity?

Ellen Pompeo shares how Taylor Swift generously donated to a program at a children's hospital where she and her husband were volunteering in Los Angeles. Swift barely knew Pompeo at the time when she invited her to be a part of the music video.

Ellen Pompeo begins,

"At the time, Chris (her husband) and I, we do a lot of volunteering for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles here and they have an amazing program at Children’s where they make music for the babies in the NICU and for the parents who have to go to work all day and they can’t be with the kids."

She continues to explain what the program is about and what they do at the children's hospital.

"They record their voices singing nursery rhymes or telling them stories and they play it for the babies in the day when the parents can’t be there... The babies respond to it and it makes their outcomes more positive." - Ellen Pompeo concludes.

While recalling this memory, she also shared that the hospital needed money at the time, so she decided to ask Taylor Swift for help. She said,

"so I just got up the hooks and asked Taylor, ‘Could you write me a big old check for Children’s?’ and she knew me all but 20 minutes and that girl wrote me the biggest check without blinking an eye." - Ellen revealed.

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This is not the first time Taylor Swift has donated a giant sum to a charity or institution. In fact, Swift donated to many food banks in the UK that were in need during her Era's tour in 2024.

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