The allegations against Ellen DeGeneres are stacking up. With her show under fire and an internal investigation launched plus stories of Ellen engaging in boorish behavior, a waitress has now come forward with claims that the talk show host was so petty she complained to the server’s boss about chipped nail polish. That complaint almost cost the waitress a two-week suspension.
"She really went out of her way to try to hurt someone who was beneath her and serving her," Chris Farah told Daily Mail.
The 35-year-old said DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi did not complain while she was serving them at Real Food Daily in Los Angeles in 2014 and was surprised when she was called into her manager's office a week later to discuss a complaint lodged by DeGeneres via email regarding her nail polish.
"You’re going to try to take money away from me for two weeks because you don’t like the way my nails looked? It’s sh---y," Farah told Daily Mail. "It’s not anything akin to her image of 'be kind.' It’s unnecessarily cruel and out of touch, and doesn’t understand the repercussions. It’s a crazy thing to do."
Farah said she believes DeGeneres "somewhat gets off on perpetrating misery on others" and was aware of "the power" she had over the restaurant.
"There’s an underlying sadistic-ness to her sometimes, under the veil of this whole 'be kind to others' thing," she said.
Farah's allegations come on the heels of another report in which a former producer on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" called the talk show host out for being a "kiss a-- who only likes famous people."
Hedda Muskat worked on the debut season of the show in 2003 until she was fired to be replaced by someone younger with less experience. Last week she dished on what it was like working with DeGeneres.
"She [Ellen] was not friendly with people, that I noticed," Muskat said in an interview on Australian radio show "The Kyle and Jackie O Show," according to The Sun. "The only people that she was friendly with were the A-list movie stars. She's a big kiss a--."
Muskat recalled how DeGeneres would "snarl" at staff members and usher them out of her office.
"When you walk into her office for example, to pitch her your segments, there was always a snarl. I always felt that I was never welcomed in her office, she always hurried me," she said.
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