“She was simply degrading to folks,” he says, referring to her present as “a spot of lively trauma for me.”
Greyson Likelihood simply revealed how he actually feels about Ellen DeGeneres … and, effectively, it is not a fairly image.
In a bombshell interview with Rolling Stone, the 25-year-old singer claimed he had “by no means met somebody extra manipulative, extra self-centered and extra blatantly opportunistic than her,” within the years after he broke out massive on her present approach again in 2010. On the time, DeGeneres had Likelihood on as a visitor after a video of the Oklahoma native singing Girl Gaga’s “Paparazzi” for a faculty efficiency went viral.
“We simply could not imagine what was occurring,” he instructed the publication. “We had been so not sure of what we had been entering into, and the individual that helped remedy all of that skepticism and chaotic power was Ellen.”
DeGeneres allegedly promised to him, “I’ll defend you. I’ll be right here for you. We will do that collectively” — earlier than signing him to her document label and setting him up with a complete staff of managers, publicists and brokers.
He claimed that after releasing an EP and beginning to tour, her habits turned “domineering and approach too controlling” and mentioned she even berated his mom when he could not make time to observe a Justin Bieber documentary she thought he ought to look ahead to profession recommendation.
Likelihood mentioned she would additionally management what he wore and recalled a second the place she allegedly yelled at his stylists for suggesting he put on a leather-based jacket — because it went in opposition to her vegan life-style.
“She would are available and take a look at a rack, yell at stylists, berate folks in entrance of me and say, ‘That is what you are carrying on the present,'” he claimed. “She was simply degrading to folks.”
He went on to say that DeGeneres “fully deserted” him when his 2012 album was not the success they had been hoping for. After he was dropped by his label, he mentioned he “couldn’t get ahold of her. Could not speak to her.”
Likelihood did, nevertheless, proceed to make appearances on “Ellen” through the years, although he now calls the present “a spot of lively trauma for me.”
“Every time I’d come on the present, it was such a faux smile. She would not even ask, ‘How are you doing? How are you holding up?’ It was similar to, ‘This is what we will speak about. We’ll see you on there,'” he mentioned, claiming the 2 did not even communicate backstage.
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He additionally expressed frustration with DeGeneres saying she was happy with him for popping out as homosexual — telling Rolling Stone, “She had nothing to do with that. … [When I came out,] I hadn’t spoken to her in years … That is so tousled, that you simply’re now displaying the world as if we’re so tight, we’re so good. And behind the scenes, you’re this insanely manipulative individual.”
Likelihood continued, “Once I take a look at the interviews and I take a look at my eyes, I can see a lot nervousness. I can simply see a lot PTSD as a result of I am there holding on for pricey life going, ‘I would like this TV gig.’ I used to be 100% faking it, and [I felt like] she [was] 100% faking it with me, too.”
He mentioned he acquired a number of invites to reappear on the present one final time for the ultimate season — together with a spot on the final two-weeks — however he turned all of them down.
“How on this planet am I supposed to take a seat down and say I am so grateful and let her take that second,” he mentioned. “I could not do this. So I turned down a national-TV gig on the eve of an album launch, which might be not a wise factor to do, however I needed to do it for my integrity.”
He does acknowledge that he owes her quite a lot of thanks for the primary a part of his profession, however when it comes to the place he is at now and his new music he mentioned he owes “f—ing nothing to her” as a result of “I used to be the one which needed to pull myself up. She was nowhere to be discovered.”
Rolling Stone mentioned DeGeneres declined to answer a “detailed listing of questions on Likelihood’s allegations.” TooFab has additionally reached out for remark. A supply near Ellen’s present, nevertheless, instructed PEOPLE they “went above and past to assist set him up for achievement, however in enterprise that does not all the time work out, and his profession didn’t take off.”
After the article went dwell, Likelihood tweeted, “I have been wanting to inform this story for a very long time. Writing [his new album ‘Palladium’] compelled me to look useless within the eyes of my previous, and reconcile with what I went via as a child. I really feel an incredible weight off my shoulders now that the reality is out.”
