Ellen Pompeo reveals how she injured her foot after wearing start to events

Ellen Pompeo has a damaged foot.

On Saturday, June 14, Gray’s Anatomy Star, 55, surprised the audience at a Tribeca Festival Storytelle’s New York City event when she showed up with a black luggage on her foot.

Under a fire conversation with Katie CouricShe revealed how she hurt herself.

After Couric, 68, asked, “What the hell happened to your foot?” Pompeo said, “I wish it was a cool, sexy or exciting story, as if I did some cool stunts or something.”

While the former Today Star assumed Pickleball was the order, Pompeo told her that the injury actually happened far from the court.

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“I just, you know, be half sleeping and jumped out of bed too fast and landed on my foot the wrong way. Something clumsy of me,” she said.

“And by the way, this is almost like my party trick,” she continued. “I’ve literally done it three times, not the same way I’ve done it. This is my second time to do it that way, sleep and jump out too fast.”

Pompeo said that the first time occurred during season 2 of Gray’s Anatomy When she was particularly tired of a few long days on the set.

“My alarm was set, and I was so tired, worked crazy hours, and I forgot to turn off my alarm because it was Saturday, so I thought I had overlapped. So the alarm goes off, and I jump out of bed, and I got the wrong way,” she reminded.

She then joked, “At least I had an apology that time. This time I have no apology!”

During his conversation with Couric at Spring Studios in New York, deep into its long -standing relationship with Gray’s Anatomy Creator Short rhesper Amount.

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“I think the most important thing to note about Shonda and I am a relationship is that we could very easily have become rough against each other,” she said.

“And there were many cases where people in my team would suggest that, you know, I am against her, and I just, I think you get more with honey than you do with vinegar,” Good American family The star continued. “And if someone proves and shows you who they are, you believe in them.”