"To me, it doesn't make any sense that everybody gets to profit off of my hard work," Ellen Pompeo said.

The actress said in a new interview that it "doesn't make any sense that everybody [else] gets to profit off of my hard work."

Ellen Pompeo has played Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy for two decades since the series debuted in 2005. However, in 2022, she negotiated her contract to reduce her episodes because she wanted to spend more time with her family.