Amid the current investigation into The Ellen Show, the latest news to surface from the show seems more damning than ever.
The infamous host of The Ellen Show has been batting off accusation after accusation… and now, the show is reportedly under investigation following reports of “mistreatment.”
Though she has built her on-screen persona around being outspoken against injustice and generous to the needy, many people have claimed that, in real life, she is quite the opposite.
Cracks have certainly begun to show, and rumors of the somewhat nastier personality behind the famous smiling blonde-haired, blue-eyed face have been intensifying.
Now, more than ever before, people are starting to turn against the star as detrimental stories continue to resurface.
For example…
In a recent, rather weird segment on her talk show, the sixty-two-year-old rated her staff’s babies after telling us “my staff [have] a lot of beautiful additions to their families. Clearly they had to be rated.”
Did they Ellen? Did they really?
And, as a result, her ratings have taken a huge blow.
The Ellen Show had its season-low rating of around 1.5.
But they revealed that it wasn’t just Ellen that was the cause of the toxicity, there were also other bosses and managers that made their lives much more difficult on set.
She was employed there for a total of eighteen months and in that time, she faced microaggressions and comments that made her feel uncomfortable.
“I’m sorry, I only know the names of the white people who work here.” The employee also claimed a producer commented on her and another Black employees’ hairstyles, allegedly stating: “Oh wow, you both have box braids; I hope we don’t get you confused.”
“Whenever I brought up an issue to my white male boss, he would bring up some random story about some random Black friend that he had and how they managed to get over stuff. He would use his Black friend as some way to say, ‘I understand your struggle,’ but it was all performative bullshit.”
Old claims from Ellen’s guests have resurfaced.
But they spoke of the bizarre culture behind the scenes on the show.
Horrendous reports of sexual harassment and assault have surfaced about Leman, pictured here alongside the Ellen team.
“It’s masked in sarcasm, but it’s not sarcasm,” a former employee claimed.
“While my job as head writer is to come up with jokes — and, during that process, we can occasionally push the envelope — I’m horrified that some of my attempts at humor may have caused offense. I have always aimed to treat everyone on the staff with kindness, inclusivity, and respect. In my whole time on the show, to my knowledge, I’ve never had a single HR or inter-personal complaint made about me, and I am devastated beyond belief that this kind of malicious and misleading article could be published.”