Grey's Anatomy Shares First Look astatine Ellen Pompeo's Goodbye
Caterina Scorsone precocious endured a terrifying tragedy.
The Grey's Anatomy prima shared connected April 3 that her location had burned down a mates of months ago. Recalling the incident, Caterina shared that she wasted nary clip getting her 3 daughters—Eliza, 10, Paloma "Pippa," 6, and Lucky, 3, whom she shares with ex-husband Rob Giles—to safety.
"While getting my kids acceptable for furniture and finishing bath time, fume began to seep up done the grout astir the tub," Caterina wrote connected Instagram. "When I looked down the hallway a stream of heavy achromatic fume had already formed and was filling the house. One happening astir fires: they hap fast. I had astir 2 minutes to get my 3 kids retired of the house, and we escaped with little than shoes connected our feet. But we got out."
After noting that she is "eternally grateful" they escaped, Caterina "heartbreakingly" revealed that they mislaid each 4 of their pets successful the fire.
"We are inactive sitting with that loss," she noted, "but we are fortunate we got to emotion them astatine all."
Caterina, who plays Dr. Amelia Shepherd connected the ABC drama, added that she decided to stock the communicative to springiness acknowledgment to those who showed her and her household enactment amid a hard experience, including her neighbor, firefighters and investigators. She didn't stock the origin of the flames.
"This is simply a emotion missive to the unthinkable radical that showed up and the unthinkable ways that they did," she wrote. "Thank you to the parents astatine my kids' schoolhouse who sent toys and books, my friends at @greysabc and @shondaland who sent covering and supplies, my sisters who flew successful to grip logistics truthful that I could beryllium with my kids."
Reflecting connected the tragedy, Caterina said she has walked distant with a lesson: "The lone happening that matters are the radical (and beings) that you love. The lone happening that matters is community."
The 41-year-old paired her touching connection with a photograph of her home's remains aft the fire, arsenic good arsenic pictures of their 3 cats and canine who passed on.
Caterina's station drew successful emotion from immoderate of her chap Grey's Anatomy cast.
Jake Borelli, who plays Dr. Levi Schmitt, wrote successful the remark section, "You are genuinely an unthinkable quality and I americium sending each the emotion I person to you and yours."
Meanwhile, Melissa DuPrey, who plays Dr. Sara Ortiz connected the show, wrote, "Oh saccharine babe. I'm truthful gladsome you each are safe. I'm atrocious for the losses of your furbabies and the tangible things that clasp memories. Grateful you are present and beryllium truthful beautifully."
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