Ellen DeGeneres has been accused of “bullying” an 11-year-old boy in a pre-fame incident, while she was working as a recruiter in her twenties.
The Independent has contacted DeGeneres’s representative for comment. Gravolet’s allegations follow recent claims by staff on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that racism, bullying and sexual harassment were rife behind the scenes.
Gravolet alleged that when he was an 11-year-old child and DeGeneres was around 20 years old, she would regularly subject him to insults.
“I was just a boy and this was a grown woman who took pleasure in seeing me become visibly upset.”