Well, that’s not funny.
Ellen DeGeneres‘ carefully crafted “nice girl” image has once again been completely shattered by a former staffer who’s opening up about his experience working with the former talk show host.
On August 25, Greg Fitzsimmons, an Emmy-winning writer who worked on the first two seasons of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, dropped a series of eyebrow-raising comments about his former boss on the We Might Be Drunk podcast.
“She was rough. She was the C-word,” Fitzsimmons said of DeGeneres, 67.
He went on to describe how DeGeneres’ true colors emerged once the show started winning awards. “She became mean because she was back on top,” he alleged, revealing there was “a lot of crying in the hallways” from traumatized first-time writers who couldn’t handle her brutal treatment.
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Fitzsimmons also detailed how an innocent audience warm-up routine once quickly went south with the comedian. According to Fitzsimmons, DeGeneres completely lost it during a taping when the audience did “the wave” during her opening monologue — something he had taught them as a warm-up bit. “She was f**king seething.”
“If you didn’t pitch in her wheelhouse, she looked at you like you had just f**king stabbed her puppy,” added Fitzsimmons.
This isn’t the first time the lid has been lifted on DeGeneres’ mean girl persona.
Back in July 2020, a BuzzFeed News investigation exposed more reports of a toxic workplace culture. “That ‘be kind’ bullshit only happens when the cameras are on,” one former employee told the outlet at the time. “It’s all for show.”
Last month, DeGeneres reflected on her damaged reputation following the scandal.
“I don’t think I can say anything that’s ever going to get rid of that [reputation] or dispel it, which is hurtful to me,” she told the BBC, insisting she’s “an empathetic, compassionate person.”
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