These Real-Life ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Friendships Will Give You All the Feels—No Surgery Required!
Love the chemistry on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’? You’ll be obsessed with these real-life friendships
After more than 20 years of portraying the same characters, while starring alongside dozens of different actors and participating in hundreds of storylines, it’s inevitable that members of the Grey’s Anatomy cast would become close and form genuine friendships.
On-screen, the stars of Grey’s Anatomy were always tied up with surgeries, patients, romance, friendships and drama. Behind the scenes, their lives weren’t too different, minus the surgeries and patients, of course. See which of the Grey’s Anatomy stars were friends in real life and which had some tension between them.
Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey
McDreamy and Meredith as a couple were the lynchpin for the 11 years Derek was a core cast member and even after. On-screen, their undeniable chemistry kept audiences tuning in week after week, year after year. But were the two thick as thieves off-screen?
It has always been rumored that Pompeo and Dempsey had a somewhat tense relationship behind the scenes, often having to do with his demanding deferential treatment in comparison to others. While their friendship was rocky at times and they didn’t remain close following his departure from the series, they did reunite as Dempsey returned in season 17 as part of Meredith’s dream sequence. The return was a huge surprise to viewers, as Dempsey’s character was killed off five years prior.
And it seems their friendship seems to have steadied since working together again, as Dempsey has declared he would love to work with Pompeo in the future. “It has always been a really special relationship Ellen and I have had together in front of the screen and behind it as well.
