The Ellen DeGeneres Show is reportedly under internal investigation following complaints from ex-staffers


The Ellen DeGeneres Show is under internal investigation after several former staffers complained about workplace conditions, Variety reports.
WarnerMedia's employee relations group and a third-party firm will interview past and present staffers to discuss their experiences working on the show, people with knowledge of the matter told Variety.
This comes after BuzzFeed News interviewed nearly a dozen former employees about their time on set. One woman said she suffered racial abuse during her 18 months working for the show, and several others claimed they were fired after taking time off for medical issues or to attend funerals.
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Most pinned the hostile work environment not on DeGeneres, but rather executive producers and senior managers, with one telling BuzzFeed News that if DeGeneres "wants to have her own show and have her name on the show title, she needs to be more involved to see what's going on."
A Warner Bros. Television spokesperson declined to comment on Variety's report.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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