Ellen DeGeneres appeared on the “Today” show Thursday to discuss her decision to exit “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” next year, at the end of its nineteenth season.
During her interview with Savannah Guthrie, which was taped just hours after DeGeneres revealed she was leaving her daytime talker, she said that the barrage of negative press last year against her and the show — including last summer’s bombshell accusations of a “toxic” workplace — were “too orchestrated” and “too coordinated.”
“I have to say, if nobody else is saying it, it was really interesting, because I’m a woman, and it did feel very misogynistic,” DeGeneres told Guthrie, when speaking about the level of backlash she received when the reports rolled out accusing both her and show producers of unkind behavior.