Ellen DeGeneres Looks Back as She Shoots Final Talk Show Episode: ‘Greatest Privilege of My Life’
thewrap.comTwitter thread concluded.DeGeneres first shared her decision to end the show back in May 2021, saying it was time for a break.“I want you to know that I’ve thought a lot about this decision,” she said on her show at the time “I sat with it for a while.
I meditated on it. I talked to Portia [de Rossi]. I talked to myself. … The point is, I need to take a break from talking.”The decision to end “Ellen” came amid declining ratings and months after production company Warner Bros.
fired three of the show’s top producers amid accusations of a toxic workplace and sexual misconduct that tarnished her onscreen persona as a queen of “nice.”“It was very hurtful to me.
I mean, very,” DeGeneres told The Hollywood Reporter of the allegations levied against the culture at her daytime talk show in 2021. “But if I was quitting the show because of that, I wouldn’t have come back this season.”.
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