Well, that\u2019s not funny.<\/p>\n
Ellen DeGeneres<\/strong>\u2018 carefully crafted \u201cnice girl\u201d image has once again been completely shattered by a former staffer who\u2019s opening up about his experience working with the former talk show host.<\/p>\n On August 25, Greg Fitzsimmons<\/strong>, 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was rough. She was the C-word,\u201d Fitzsimmons said of DeGeneres, 67.<\/p>\n He went on to describe how DeGeneres\u2019 true colors emerged once the show started winning awards. \u201cShe became mean because she was back on top,\u201d he alleged, revealing there was \u201ca lot of crying in the hallways\u201d from traumatized first-time writers who couldn\u2019t handle her brutal treatment.<\/p>\n ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA<\/span><\/p>\n Fitzsimmons also detailed how an innocent audience warm-up routine once quickly went south with the comedian.\u00a0According to Fitzsimmons, DeGeneres completely lost it during a taping when the audience did \u201cthe wave\u201d during her opening monologue \u2014 something he had taught them as a warm-up bit. \u201cShe was f**king seething.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf you didn\u2019t pitch in her wheelhouse, she looked at you like you had just f**king stabbed her puppy,\u201d added Fitzsimmons.<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t the first time the lid has been lifted on DeGeneres\u2019 mean girl persona.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n