season 18 premiere on Monday, host Ellen DeGeneres spoke out about her "horrible summer" and took full «responsibility» for everything that goes on behind the scenes.
ET has learned that DeGeneres wrote the monologue herself and filmed it last Wednesday. Her wife, Portia de Rossi, was present for the taping.«I'm so happy to be back in the studio.
There are a lot of things I want to talk about. I've been looking forward to addressing it all directly and, unfortunately, talking directly to people has been illegal for six months, so I have a virtual audience here instead,» DeGeneres, 62, said at the top of the show. «As you may have heard, this summer there were allegations of a toxic work environment at our show, and then there was an.
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