During an appearance on The Kelly Mantle Show, legendary bisexual comedian Margaret Cho blasted Ellen DeGeneres as a “mean girl.”
“It’s so weird now, like, public perception of her is, like, more true,” Cho said. In 2020, DeGeneres pulled the plug on her daytime chat show after allegations of staff abuse.
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“Ellen was really weird and not nice to me for most of my career,” Cho told Mantle.
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“I opened for her in the 1980s when she was a headliner in comedy clubs, way before her big fame, so later, when I would do her talk show in the 2000s, she acted like we just met. And I’m like, ‘B***h what?’ That’s weird! Like, we go way back. It’s so creepy and weird!”
Cho also said she felt like Ellen had negative feelings toward her because her girlfriends and wives always liked her.
The Ellen DeGeneres Show began to unravel late in its 19-year run when allegations of rampant abuse began to surface. Two explosive stories about the toxic work environment published by Buzzfeed News led to an investigation by Warner Bros., producer of the program along with DeGeneres’ own Very Good Productions. Three top producers got the axe.
But the house-cleaning and a poorly received on-air apology from the host weren’t enough to salvage the multiple Emmy-winning show. DeGeneres signed off for the last time in May 2022 with her signature “Be kind” goodbye.
And despite her attempts to redeem herself in a Netflix special, former employees said it was a case study in evasion and self-deception.
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