I've never really watched her. So, I don't know if it was her or just her staff. But how can she not know what's going on when people are acting weird around her? You think after a while she'd ask why are people behaving that way?
I saw this interview earlier tonight where an executive producer, who does the "Today Show," down in Australia, says he's not surprised at the allegations against her.
He said: (bolding mine)
"An Australian radio host, [Neil Breen,]
said on Tuesday that he was given specific instructions about how to behave when he worked with Ellen DeGeneres in 2013.
Richard Wilkins, an Australian TV presenter, was set to interview DeGeneres — but Breen said he and the rest of his team received a very specific set of rules for working with her.
"Because it's 'The Ellen Show,' they controlled everything," Breen said. "They controlled the interview seats, the lights, how it would work, everything."
He added: "The producers called us aside and said, 'OK, this is how it's going to work here this morning. Ellen's going to arrive at 10:15, and she'll be sitting in this chair here, and Richard, you'll be sitting in this chair here.'"
Breen said DeGeneres' team then told him: "Neil, no one's to talk to Ellen. So you don't talk to her, you don't approach her, you don't look at her. She'll come in, she'll sit down, she'll talk to Richard, then Ellen will leave."
"I found the whole thing bizarre," Breen said. He also said that with "every word" DeGeneres said, her team would "giggle and laugh" — so much so that he had to tell them to be quiet since they were taping an interview.
"I'm not blaming Ellen, because I didn't get to talk to her, because I wasn't allowed to," he said. "So I don't know whether she's a nice person or not. I wouldn't have a clue. But I can tell you the people who worked with her walked on eggshells the whole time.""