Ellen DeGeneres slapped with new bullying claims by Adam Carolla: ‘WORST PERSON’

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It’s been three years since Ellen DeGeneres has graced TV screens but talk of her “mean” behaviour and demeanour remain.

Adam Carolla revealed that when he was on DeGeneres former talk show, he saw just how “scared” her staff was of her.

“I knew they were scared, because I was just sitting in my dressing room and their segment producer came in, and he went, ‘All right, so we went over all the stuff we’re going to talk about.’ You know, Christmas vacation or whatever it was. And I go, ‘Yeah, yeah,’” Carolla recalled of his 2012 appearance on Tuesday’s episode of After Party with Emily Dashinsky.

“He goes, ‘You’re not gonna talk about meat or beef or anything like that, right?” Carolla recounted.

“And he came back 20 minutes later right before I went out, and he’s like, ‘OK, but don’t talk about beef or meat.’”

Carolla said the impression he got was, “Oh, this guy’s scared to death. This guy’s scared.”

Carolla noted that another staff member told him he hated working for DeGeneres.

“Later on, I talked to someone who signed an NDA, so I won’t say his name, but he wrote for Ellen,” he divulged.

“I just went, ‘How’s Ellen?’ And he said, ‘Worst person, uh, worst person — not worst person I’ve worked for, worst person I’ve ever met.’”

Carolla claimed the writer also worked for Rosie O’Donnell but DeGeneres was a far worse boss.

“She’s not a nice person at all,” Carolla declared about DeGeneres.

“Everyone was scared of her, which means she’s mean,” he continued.

“She’s not gonna be mean to me, I’m a guest on the show, right?,” he added. “I wouldn’t know it from my exchanges, I would know it from how her staff was cowering.”

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DeGeneres’ daytime talk show debuted in 2003 before she decided the 19th would be its last after faltering ratings amid allegations of a toxic workplace environment where top producers engaged in a wide range of sexual misconduct with lower-level employees.

In 2020, current and former staffers spoke anonymously about their alleged experience working on the show in a BuzzFeed News report.

DeGeneres apologized to staff at the time and producers Ed Glavin, Kevin Leman and Jonathan Norman exited the show, but one employee argued that if the 67-year-old’s name is in the show title, “she needs to be more involved to see what’s going on.”

DeGeneres — who left the United States after Donald Trump was re-elected and now lives in the U.K. with wife Portia de Rossi — touched on the controversies in her final stand-up special last year.

“I got kicked out of show business for being mean,” she said.

While admitting she had been harsh and a very immature boss, DeGeneres has not publicly apologized for her actions or management’s conduct following the report of the alleged conduct.

“I used to say, ‘I don’t care what people say about me,’ she said during the comedy show. “Now I realize I said that during the height of my popularity.”