United Kingdom, June 3 -- Ellen Pompeo was detained by the TSA and "bomb squad" over a "bag of sunflower seeds".

The 'Grey's Anatomy' actress has revealed an awkward moment at the airport recently when she set off the alarms and the Transportation Security Administration pulled her in for questioning before she could board her flight.

She told Travel + Leisure magazine: "I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon, so they were probably the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy.

"They literally held me for an hour, and they brought the bomb squad in. And I was like, what is happening? Is this a joke?

"They said it was most likely a chemical on the packaging of these super expensive, fancy, organic,...