Ellen DeGeneres has announced she is stepping out of the limelight after the release of her forthcoming Netflix special.
The former TV show host and comedian shared the news during her current tour, Ellen’s Last Stand… Up in Santa Rosa, California.
Speaking in the Q&A section of the tour, DeGeneres responded to a fan asking whether she would return to film or appear on Broadway afterwards, saying: “This is the last time you’re going to see me. After my Netflix special, I’m done.”
The entertainer also addressed bullying allegations made against her in a Buzzfeed News 2022 report, which caused her to abruptly end her talk show after 19 years on air.
“Let me catch you up on what’s been going on with me since you last saw me,” DeGeneres said at the show, jesting: “I got chickens. Oh yeah, and I got kicked out of show business for being mean.”
Though DeGeneres admitted she “can be demanding and impatient and tough. I am a strong woman,” she went on to add: “I am many things, but I am not mean.”
“I used to say, ‘I don’t care what people say about me,'” she continued. “Now I realise I said that during the height of my popularity.”
DeGeneres has previously opened up about the end of her talk show, admitting, “This is not the way I wanted my career to end.”
At a show in Los Angeles, DeGeneres reportedly told the crowd (as per Rolling Stone): “This was a whole different thing. This was like, ‘What is going on?’ It was so hurtful. I couldn’t gain perspective. I couldn’t do anything to make myself understand that it wasn’t personal,” she said.
“I just thought, ‘Well this is not the way I wanted to end my career, but this is the way it’s ending.’ I just hated the way the show ended,” she continued. “I love that show so much and I just hated that the last time people would see me is that way.”
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