As he appeared in the Monday episode of The sight To promote their new show, Good North -American Family, Ellen Pompeo really gotten about the difficulties he had to navigate in his career, including receiving death threats to marry a black man.
Here is what he said about hateful comments and how they made it stronger.
Pompeu says he has “had death threats to marry a black man”
Privileged TV He reported that when Pompeu was asked how he managed the negative tabloid headlines about his first race, he gave an unexpected response.
“I think all young women fight with confidence and make you aware of yourself. But I also had other fish to fry,” he said. “I had older things (to worry -me). I had death threats to marry -me with a black man. It’s not the only one I treated.”
Pompeo’s husband, Chris IveryHe is a record producer and writer who has worked with artists like Rihanna. According to People MagazineThe couple met in a grocery store and soon learned that they grew a few minutes from each other in Boston.
“We were friends for six months; and one night only found it different,” Ivery told The Outlet. “We were six degrees all our lives, so I feel we were destined to be,” he added.
For TV Insider, the couple tied the knot in 2007 and had three children.
Pompeo has talked about his experiences raising biracial children
In 2018, as he appeared to a episode Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook View View Program Red table talkPompeu spoke of an incident involved in his daughter Stella, who is a biracial, and a young black young man who came to her house, Atlanta black star reported. According to Pompeo, the child seemed uncomfortable when he realized that Pompeo, a white woman, was Stella’s mother.
“The little girl came in and I introduced myself and said,” I’m Stella’s mother. ” “Then he went to Stella and said,” Is your mother? I thought it was your mother, “says the nanny.”
Red table talk Co-amfitrió Willow Smith said that the child could have been “confused”, but Pompeo closed quickly.
“It is confused, yes, but again without trust, possibly,” he said.
Pompeu also opened to grow in a racist environment while in the program.
“I grew up in an Italian-Irish neighborhood in Boston … It’s no more racist than that,” he said. “Racism is what attracted me to black people, to brown people, because it was like,” What is it? “It made me so curious.”
