Ellen Pompeo: With a black foot rail on the Red Carpet

“Grey’s Anatomy” star Ellen Pompeo (55) caused a surprise on Saturday at the Tribeca Festival in New York City: The actress combined a black medical foot rail on the right foot for her salmon-colored two-part. She promptly had the audience’s full attention on stage.

Journalist Katie Couric (68), who led through the storytellers event, asked curiously: “What the hell happened to your foot?” Pompeo countered with dry humor: “I wish it was a cool, sexy or exciting story – as if I had made some dangerous stunt or something”, from the conversation.

But instead of an action-packed scene on the tennis or pickleball square, as Couric suspected, the real reason is far more banal, as Ellen Pompeo explains: “I was half asleep and jumped out of bed too quickly. I just got wrong. A little clumsy from me,” she explained.

Even more curious: “This is almost my party trick,” she jokes. I’ve already done this three times – not in the exact same way, but that was the second time that I got up too quickly in half sleep and injured my foot. “

For the first time, this misfortune happened to her during the filming of the second season of “Grey’s Anatomy”. “I was totally tired from the long days of shooting. My alarming was, although Saturday was, and I thought I would have sleeped. When the alarm clock started, I jumped up – and I took my foot wrong.” At least she had a good reason at the time, said Pompeo. This time? “I have no excuse!”