Adam Carolla makes startling new claims about Ellen DeGeneres' former talk show: 'She's not nice at all'

WASHINGTON, DC: Comedian Adam Carolla made startling new claims about former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and her former chat show.

He revealed during a podcast appearance on Tuesday, July 29, that the staff on DeGeneres' show "were scared, real scared" during his two guest spots on the show.

Adam Carolla says Ellen DeGeneres' staff were 'real scared' of her

Adam Carolla spoke to conservative commentator Emily Jashinsky and provided a pair of anecdotes as purported proof.

The 61-year-old recalled first being reminded by a "scared-to-death" page to avoid certain topics before going on air. The second incident involved a writer for the show who said Ellen DeGeneres was "the worst person I've ever met."

Carolla said during the podcast, "I knew they were scared because it's like, I was just sitting in the my dressing room and their like segment producer came in, and he went, 'All right, so we went over all the stuff we're going to talk about', you know, Christmas vacation or whatever it was. And and I go, yeah, yeah."

He then added, "And he goes, 'You're not going to talk about meat or beef or anything like that, right?' And I go, 'No, I'm not. I'm just going to talk about the stuff we talked about - going on vacation at Christmas, or the kids, or you know, their anecdotes."

This happened during the time DeGeneres had been a devout vegan, a lifestyle she had since abandoned.

Carolla recalled the staffer said, "Okay. All right. Okay. All right," after appearing on DeGeneres' show in March 2012.

He added, "And he like came back like 20 minutes later right before I went out, and he's like, 'Okay, but don't talk about beef or meat or any[thing].'"

"I was like, oh, this guy's scared to death," Carolla said during the podcast.

Adam Carolla recalls staffer telling him Ellen DeGeneres was 'worst person' he ever met

During the podcast, Adam Carolla offered another incident related to the show that was canned after allegations of toxicity from its longtime host surfaced in 2022.

He said, "Later on, I talked to someone who signed an NDA, so I won't say his name, but he wrote for Ellen."

"I just went, 'How's Ellen?' And uh, he said, 'Worst person, uh, worst person,'" Carolla recalled.

He then added, "Not worst person I've worked for. Worst person I've ever met."

Carolla hosted the 'Man Show' with DeGeneres' former ABC colleague Jimmy Kimmel in the early 2000s.

He also revealed that the staffer had also worked for Rosie O'Donnell's daytime show during the 90s, and was adamant DeGeneres was the worst of the bunch.

Carolla said, "[This was] when Rosie was the Official Chub Club," while referring to the title of a book O'Donnell wrote the foreword for in 1999 titled, 'You Don't Have to Be Thin to Win: The Official Chub Club Coach's Workout Program'.

He said about O'Donnell, "The worst and the meanest."

Talking about DeGeneres, he said, "She's not a nice person at all."

Ellen DeGeneres moved to the United Kingdom with her wife, Portia de Rossi, following Trump's reelection and her show's cancellation.

Carolla also relished the fact that the people now know "what [he] knew 15 years ago."

Interestingly, DeGeneres was first accused of having a toxic work environment in 2020 by ten former and one then-current employee, which led her to issue an apology.