Ellen DeGeneres had a different “experience” while working with Greyson Chance after signing him to a record deal as a teenager, a source exclusively tells Us Weekly.“Ellen and the team went above and beyond and sometimes careers just don’t take off,” the insider tells Us about the 64-year-old comedian’s working relationship with the “Shut Up” singer, 25.The source adds that Chance “did not make any complaints” during the time that he worked with DeGeneres and her team and continued to appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show “to launch his new projects” until 2019.“He has taken this time, as he is launching a [new] album, to go after Ellen with opportunistic claims,” the insider claims.The response comes just hours after Rolling Stone published an interview with Chance, 25, in which the “Shut Up” singer opened up for the “first” and “last” time about his experience being signed to the Emmy winner’s eleveneleven record label. “I’ve never met someone more manipulative, more self-centered, and more blatantly opportunistic than her,” he told the outlet in an interview published on Thursday, September 22.Chance was invited on DeGeneres’ eponymous talk show when he was 12 years old after a video of him performing Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” went viral.
After gifting him $10,000 and a new piano, she signed the tween to her newly founded label, allegedly promising him and his mother that she would personally guide him on his journey to stardom.
However, Chance claims that the comedian soon “became domineering and way too controlling,” and wanted final say on everything from his music to his wardrobe.“My whole week, my whole month, my whole year could change [with] one text message from her,” the “My Dying Spirit” musician told the
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