Paula Deen<\/strong> once gave Ellen DeGeneres<\/strong> an unexpected gift.<\/p>\n In the former Food Network personality\u2019s new documentary Canceled: The Paula Deen Story<\/em> \u2014 which premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival \u2014 she recalled how she gave DeGeneres, 67, a ham without realizing she was vegan, according to Entertainment Weekly.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI walked out and I said, \u2018I brought a ham for my favorite ham. Isn\u2019t that sweet?’\u201d Deen, 78, recalled per the outlet.<\/p>\n A clip of the cookbook author telling the former talk show host, \u201cHe\u2019s so heavy, he\u2019s your pig to keep up with now!\u201d was played in the doc.<\/p>\n \u201cShe took it, laid it down, and didn\u2019t say a word,\u201d Deen recalled. \u201cI found out later she was a vegetarian. She didn\u2019t eat meat. I felt like a turd.\u201d<\/p>\n A representative for DeGeneres clarified to EW<\/em> that the comedian is actually a vegan, not a vegetarian.<\/p>\n As the National Enquirer<\/em> previously reported,<\/a> DeGeneres has been making headlines recently<\/a> after Rosie O\u2019Donnell<\/strong> confessed that the comedian dropping her as a friend in 2004 was \u201cone of the most painful things that ever happened to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Additionally, in August, a former cameraman<\/a> on The Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/em> told the Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> that DeGeneres did not spread positivity on set, similarly to the workplace claims lodged against her in 2020.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was just weird \u2014 cameras on, she\u2019d be dancing, doing all this fun stuff, and cameras off \u2014 she was terrifying,\u201d the cameraman told the outlet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging.nationalenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MEGA541203_003-scaled.jpg\")