Some alleged they have been fired for taking medical and bereavement depart, and one mentioned she walked off her job after being subjected to feedback about her race.
A former worker mentioned, “If [Ellen] desires to have her personal present and have her title on the present title, she must be extra concerned to see what is going on on. I believe the chief producers encompass her and inform her, ‘Issues are going nice, all people’s joyful,’ and she or he simply believes that, however it’s her duty to transcend that.”
In a joint assertion, govt producers Ed Glavin, Mary Connelly, and Andy Lassner mentioned, “Over the course of almost twenty years, 3,000 episodes, and using over 1,000 workers members, we’ve got strived to create an open, secure, and inclusive work surroundings. We’re really heartbroken and sorry to be taught that even one particular person in our manufacturing household has had a adverse expertise. It is not who we’re and never who we try to be, and never the mission Ellen has set for us. For the file, the everyday duty of the Ellen present is totally on us. We take all of this very significantly and we notice, as many on the earth are studying, that we have to do higher, are dedicated to do higher, and we are going to do higher.”
Quickly after, dozens of former staff additionally accused a number of prime producers of sexual misconduct behind the scenes. The producers denied such allegations, and in an announcement, Warner Bros. mentioned it “hoped to find out the validity and extent of publicly reported allegations and to know the total breadth of the present’s day-to-day tradition.”
The present ended a number of months later.
