I have always aimed to treat everyone on the staff with kindness, inclusivity and respect.
I started at the Ellen Show as a PA more than 17 years ago and have devoted my career to work my way to the position I now hold.
While my job as head writer is to come up with jokes — and, during that process, we can occasionally push the envelope — I’m horrified that some of my attempts at humor may have caused offense.
In my whole time on the show, to my knowledge, I’ve never had a single HR or inter-personal complaint made about me, and I am devastated beyond belief that this kind of malicious and misleading article could be published.