'It was so bad': Ellen Pompeo cried during 'uncomfortable and awkward' sex scene for Grey’s Anatomy

Ellen Pompeo cried during an "uncomfortable" sex scene for 'Grey’s Anatomy'.

The actress - who appeared in 21 seasons of the hit medical drama - has revealed she broke down in tears when she had to film an intimate moment with her co-star T.R. Knight because it felt so "awkward".

During an appearance on the 'Call Her Daddy' podcast, she explained: "TR and I are such good friends and we had to do a love scene and we were both crying.

"The scene was so uncomfortable and awkward. He didn’t want to do that, I didn’t want to do it. When we filmed it, it was so bad."

Ellen's nightmare continued as she was then forced to reshoot the scene.

She added: "The network said there was too much thrusting. In your worst nightmare to have to do it one time, we had to reshoot that s*** … "

It's been years since she filmed the scene, but Ellen has never had to courage to actually watch it to see how it turned out.

She said: "I’ve never watched that scene. I’ve never seen it. I don’t know how it was shot or covered or how it was edited but I’m full-on in tears the whole entire scene and those are real tears.

"There was a lot of stuff that I didn’t want to do at the time."