Ellen DeGeneres on Wednesday night spoke publicly about the “devastating” experience she went through amid allegations of a toxic work environment on her talk show, saying the last few years have taken “such a toll on my ego and my self-esteem.”
The 66-year-old comic was appearing on stage in Los Angeles for the first show of her “Ellen’s Last Stand… Up Tour.” She opened the performance by saying that she “used to say that I didn’t care what other people thought of me” and then realized she was saying that “at the height of my popularity,” according to Rolling Stone.
DeGeneres’ act contained material about what she’d been doing since the cancelation of her Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2022. “What else can I tell you?” she said. “Oh yeah, I got kicked out of show business.”
She was referring to the fallout from an explosive 2020 BuzzFee