“Whenever I brought up an issue to my white male boss, he would bring up some random story about some random Black friend that he had and how they managed to get over stuff,” she explained. “He would use his Black friend as some way to say, ‘I understand your struggle.’ But it was all performative bullshit.”
“I feel angry about the way I was treated, and I am always going to stand up for Black, Indigenous, Latino, and Asian people, regardless if they’re around,” she said. “I can’t not say anything. I’m not going to stop talking.” In an email statement sent to HuffPost Friday, “Ellen DeGeneres Show” executive producers Mary Connelly, Ed Glavin and Andy Lassner said of the allegations, “It’s not who we are and not who we strive to be, and not the mission Ellen has set for us.”