After leaving the wildly popular series, Ellen then turned her attention to a limited series for Hulu. In September of 2022, she spoke out about leaving Greys and the future ahead. “I’m so excited,” Ellen exclusively told HollywoodLife at the D23 Expo, where she was named a Disney Legend along with her former co-star Patrick Dempsey. “I feel really happy and grateful that the company gave me an opportunity to do something different with my new limited series.”
She also has likely found some extra time to spend with her family, including her adorable husband Chris Ivery. The couple might just have the sweetest meet cute story of all time. Two years before her star-making turn on the hit medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, Ellen met her future husband in a Los Angeles grocery store. Throughout the interaction in 2003, the pair discovered they grew up just 10 miles away from each other in Boston, Massachusetts, and marveled at the coincidence. “We were six degrees our whole lives, so I feel like we were sort of meant to be,” Ellen later told people. The future couple were friends for six months, before their relationship took a romantic turn, and they’ve gone from strength to strength ever since.