Ellen DeGeneres jokes about getting ‘kicked out of show business’ over being ‘mean’, says it was ‘devastating’: ‘Hate went on for a long time’

During her latest standup routine in California, Ellen DeGeneres joked about getting “kicked out of show business” for being “mean,” reported People. DeGeneres said she had become the “most hated person in America” as the allegations started mounting, leading to three producers exiting the show, which eventually wrapped up in 2022.

 

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“The hate went on for a long time and I would try to avoid looking at the news. The ‘be kind’ girl wasn’t kind. That was the headline… I’m making jokes about what happened to me, but it was devastating. It took a long time for me to want to do anything again,” she was quoted as saying.

Ellen also spoke about how she was “in a funk” and it started to affect wife Portia de Rossi. “She was watching it happen to me… she went through it with me,” she said about Portia. The 66-year-old comedian said she “hated” the way the show–that she “loved so much”–ended, leaving her viewers with a damaging negative perception of her.