Ellen DeGeneres’ alleged nasty streak has deep roots, apparently.
Louisiana man Ben Gravolet claims DeGeneres’ cruel behavior goes all the way back to when she worked at his mother’s New Orleans recruitment agency in the late 1970s, Daily Mail reported on Thursday.
“She would criticize my weight,” Gravolet, now a 52-year-old father of three and vice president of a New Orleans marketing agency, told the UK tabloid. “I would try to do homework in the office, she’d call me stupid, she’d call me fat. She would criticize my clothes.”
“I would dread going to [my mom’s] office to see her after school or on a day if I was sick and Ellen was there,” he said.
“One incident stands out in my mind,” Gravolet continued. “I was sitting beside her desk. I was drawing, and she criticized the drawings. She said, ‘I guess that would look nice if you could draw.’
“As I watched her meteoric rise to fame, people would say how great she was and all I could think was she must be an incredible actor because she was one of the most vile people I’ve ever met in my life. Who takes pleasure in giving a child pain?”
https://pagesix.com/2020/08/06/louisiana-man-claims-ellen-degeneres-bullied-him-as-an-11-year-old/
>Who takes pleasure in giving a child pain?”