{"id":49643,"date":"2025-04-04T06:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=49643"},"modified":"2025-04-04T06:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T06:56:16","slug":"so-wonderful-taylor-swift-wrote-ellen-pompeos-charity-a-check-in-blink-of-an-eye-even-though-theyd-only-met-for-all-of-20-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=49643","title":{"rendered":"SO WONDERFUL: Taylor Swift wrote Ellen Pompeo\u2019s charity a check \u201cin blink of an eye\u201d even though they\u2019d only met for \u201call of 20 minutes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The actor appeared in the singer&#8217;s &#8216;Bad Blood&#8217; video in 2014<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Ellen-Pompeo-Taylor-Swift-696x442.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor Swift\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u00a0star Ellen Pompeo has hailed the generosity of\u00a0Taylor Swift, saying the megastar donated to a charity she works for within minutes of meeting her.<\/p>\n<p>The pair worked together when Pompeo appeared in the star-studded music video for Swift\u2019s hit \u2018Bad Blood\u2019 in 2014. Appearing on\u00a0<em>The Jennifer Hudson Show<\/em>, the actor looked back on the exchange that led to the donation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ellen Pompeo on 20 Years of \u2018Grey\u2019s Anatomy\u2019 and Working with Taylor Swift\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dL1fPravnPg?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAt the time, (my husband) Chris (Ivery) and I, we do a lot of volunteering for Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles here,\u201d she said. \u201cThey have an amazing program at Children\u2019s where they make music for the babies in the NICU. For the parents who have to go to work all day and they can\u2019t be with the kids, they record their voices singing nursery rhymes or telling them stories and they play it for the babies in the day when the parents can\u2019t be there. The babies respond to it and it makes their outcomes more positive\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She continued: \u201cIt\u2019s a really nice program, but they need money to run it. I asked Taylor, \u2018Could you write me a big old check for Children\u2019s?\u2019 and she knew me all but 20 minutes and that girl wrote me the biggest check without blinking an eye\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taylor Swift - Bad Blood ft. 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