Ellen Pompeo Asked Taylor Swift to ‘Write Me a Check’ for Charity Despite Knowing Each Other for ‘All but 20 Minutes’; Swift Sent the ‘Biggest Check Without Blinking an Eye’

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Ellen Pompeo appeared on “The Jennifer Hudson Show” and reminisced about her relationship with Taylor Swift. The music icon famously named one of her cats after Pompeo’s “Grey’s Anatomy” character Meredith Grey. Pompeo then appeared in Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video alongside a bevy of A-list stars. The actor said Swift once wrote her a “big old check” for charity just from a simple ask.

“At the time, [my husband] Chris [Ivery] and I, we do a lot of volunteering for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles here,” Pompeo

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