One “Grey’s Anatomy” icon recalled her life growing up in Massachusetts in a recent podcast.
On Wednesday’s episode of popular podcast “Call Her Daddy,” Ellen Pompeo, who played Meredith Grey on “Grey’s Anatomy,” was a guest on the show. The show is hosted by Alex Cooper.
While talking topics like her career, a salary negotiation and her family, she also made some references to her upbringing outside Boston in Everett.
Pompeo displayed her own Boston accent and dove more into her early life before fame.
When finding the two had ties to the city in common, Cooper informed Pompeo that she attended Boston University.
“So pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd,” Cooper joked.
“Pahk the cah,” Pompeo added. “I didn’t go to university, I was working at f—— Dunkin’ Donuts, hun.”
The 55-year-old actress said she can always hear a slight Boston accent of hers, but she’s “constantly trying to not sound” like she has one.
Pompeo was also not shy when speaking on finances. She explained that because of her “intense” Boston upbringing, she always noticed people with money when she was young.
“I became aware at a very early age that people with money had power, and I didn’t have any power as a young woman. I didn’t like the way that felt,” Pompeo said. “I would watch people, all men, who had a lot of money and a lot of power. I looked up to them and thought they were incredibly cool.”
She continued by saying she wanted to make that happen for herself when she was young.
“For women, financial freedom is true independence,” she said. “To be financially independent to me is what makes me the happiest, feel the most free. I don’t ever have to do anything I don’t want to do.”
