Princewill Pius
Ellen Pompeo’s first meeting with Chris Ivery was very meet-cute. The two serendipitously bumped into one another in 2003 while shopping at Whole Foods in Los Angeles, but once the actor learned a little more about him and his Boston roots, she almost said sayonara. “I knew his background and I knew the circle in which he ran and I didn’t want anything to do with it,” she told The Telegraph in 2007 (via TV Fanatic). “You think you want to get away from your past and be this completely different person.” Pompeo also revealed that Ivery had gone to jail “a couple of times” — a “very common” scenario within the Beantown community she’d tried so hard to leave behind.
Luckily, fate intervened, and Pompeo ran into Ivery again two days later. “By this time in my life I know that’s no accident,” she explained. “I knew he was supposed to be in my life.”
After six months of friendship, the two started dating. Ivery told People there was a moment for him when Pompeo “just looked different” to him. The Grey’s Anatomy star also grew to appreciate the many things they have in “common.” As Ivery told Us Weekly, “We love going to, like, a Laker or Clipper game. We’ll go to a game and we’ll go out to dinner.”
Written by: Nicki
