Over the past few weeks, Ellen DeGeneres has been accused by dozens of current and former employees of turning a blind eye to racism, intimidation, and sexual misconduct on the set of her daytime talk show. Now, things have just gotten even worse for DeGeneres, as her fellow comedian Judy Gold is speaking out to corroborate the allegations that have been made against her.

Gold told Page Six that she recalls talking to “a writer who said the happiest day of their life was when they cleaned up their desk and got to leave.”

“I worked with [DeGeneres] once and she was very nice, but I’ve been hearing this forever,” Gold added.

“Look here’s the deal, yes there’s a double standard,” she continued. “A woman like that is a bitch and a man like that is ambitious, great fine. But it’s coming from multiple sources and when your public persona is be kind to everyone … And it’s your show!”

Gold was referring to the fact that DeGeneres ends every episode of her show by urging viewers to be kind to one another. Staffers, however, have been claiming that DeGeneres doesn’t practice what she preaches.

Not stopping there, Gold went on to say that one of the most disturbing claims she’d heard about DeGeneres was that staffers were not allowed to even look her in the eye on set.

“That was one of the first things I had ever heard!” Gold exclaimed. “I was like, ‘Really?! Who says you can’t look at me? Doesn’t she say it at the end of the show? Be kind, be kind. You know, come on!’”

In a Zoom call with over 200 employees earlier this month, DeGeneres denied that she’d ever told staffers not to look her in the eye.

“I don’t know where it started,” DeGeneres said. “Please talk to me. Look me in the eye.”

She went on to describe this rumor as “insane,” adding, “It’s crazy, just not true, I don’t know how it started. [It’s] not who I am.”

This comes one month after a producer on Australia’s “Today” show spoke out to reveal the alleged bizarre demands DeGeneres had while appearing on the show.

“She’ll come in, she’ll sit down, she’ll talk to Richard and then Ellen will leave,’” Neil Breen remembered her staff telling him. “And I sort of said, ‘I can’t look at her?’ I found the whole thing bizarre.”

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