You know how on a group challenge episode of Project Runway when the group did badly, the leader of the group would take responsibility for their overall performance without necessarily taking ownership for every single mistake? Ellen DeGeneres apologized to her staff this week, writing in a letter that she was disappointed to learn that her set was apparently such a toxic, racist place to work at, and, well…her apology was very that.
Well, a couple of celebs who claim to know the truth about the daytime talk show host are not having it! [throws dart at wall of celebrity names] Brad Garrett and [turns crank on thing full of Bingo balls also bearing the names of celebs] Lea Thompson have come forward, alleging that DeGeneres is far from the dutiful though ultimately innocent leader she’s trying to cast herself as.
On Thursday, Garrett, the extraordinarily tall standup comedian of Everybody Loves Raymond fame, logged onto Twitter to call bullshit. “Sorry, but it comes from the top,” he tweeted after seeing a story about Ellen’s apology letter, per Entertainment Weekly. “[I] know more than one [person who was] treated horribly by her. [It’s] common knowledge.”
Thompson—who apparently starred in a Little Women adaptation set in the present day that I never heard about till just now googling??—chimed in the following day, backing up Garrett’s claims that DeGeneres is way more responsible for the mistreatment her workers experienced on set than she’s letting on. “True story,” the Caroline in the City star tweeted in response to a news item about Garrett’s comments, People reports. “It is.”
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