Two years later The Ellen DeGeneres Show Near the end, Ellen DeGeneres gets candid about how toxic workplace allegations against her have affected her mental health.
The allegations, which were first reported in a report published by BuzzFeed News in July 2020, were addressed by the comedian, 66, in her latest Netflix special. Ellen Degeneres: For your approval, which premiered on Tuesday 24.09.
“I’m happy that I’m not a boss or a brand or a billboard, just a person,” said DeGeneres, whose talk show ran from 2003 to 2022 for 19 seasons.
Ellen Degeneres in ‘The Ellen Degeneres Show’.
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“Just a multifaceted person with different feelings and emotions, and I can be happy and sad and compassionate or frustrated. I have OCD and ADD. I’m honest. I’m generous. I’m sensitive and thoughtful,” she continued. “But I’m firm, and impatient, and demanding. I’m direct. I’m a strong woman.”
After the crowd cheered wildly and received a standing ovation, she said “thank you” to the audience and declared that she was “proud of who I have become”.
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Ellen DeGeneres speaks during ‘Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval’.
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“When you’re a public figure, you’re open to anyone’s interpretation. And I’m sure you’ve heard the saying that, ‘What other people think of me is none of my business.’ Because people will say all kinds of things and you have no control over it, but you know the truth and that’s all that matters,” she said.
DeGeneres stated that she “cares about what people think” in comedy because “that’s our only real currency for success.”
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“If they like you, you’re in, and if they don’t like you, you’re out. And I’ve spent my whole life trying to make people happy and I cared too much about what other people thought of me . . . So the thought that someone thought I was mean was devastating to me and ate at me for a long time,” she said, noting that she gained “perspective” over the years.
“After a lifetime of worrying, I just can’t anymore. Well I can’t. But to be honest… and I have a choice of people who will remember me as someone who was mean or someone who was loved. Loved? Loved. Someone who is loved…” DeGeneres said before adding, “I choose it.”
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Michelle Obama and Ellen DeGeneres during a 2012 episode of ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’.
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Although DeGeneres’ long-running talk show ended in May 2022, nearly two years after the BuzzFeed News report, she previously said The Hollywood Reporter that the allegations did not affect her decision to end the series.
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Ellen Degeneres: For your approval is now available to stream on Netflix.
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