Next, Ellen, were you surprised by the allegations about P. Diddy? Did that surprise you about P. Diddy? He’s been on your show many times. Have a good night. Have you been to his parties? Tell me about your birthday party; am I invited?

Yes, yes, you’re definitely invited. I invite you to all my parties; you just haven’t seemed to show up. No? Well, there, now what time would your party start? Let’s say like 9:30. Really, that early? Yeah, I could make that. Yeah, but I think of you as starting a party at like midnight. Like, what time will it go till? That’s a different type of party, though.

Uh-huh. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Ellen, happy birthday to you. You didn’t invite me to the party, so I’m just here in my office having shots in honor of one of the most beautiful women in the world. Brought a friend to Bora Bora, yeah, and you’re just naked with your friend. Why are you putting me on the spot like this? Gosh, I mean, you can say why can’t you say you’re dating somebody? I’m not dating anyone, though. She’s just a friend. She’s just a friend. Wow. Stop. I have friends I’ve never seen them naked like that, and they don’t bring me to Bora Bora. Stop, you’re making me blush.

Dude, you knew it was bound to happen. Ellen DeGeneres just got pulled into the whole Diddy drama. Paparazzi recently cornered Ellen, asking for her take on her longtime buddy Diddy facing some serious heat, especially regarding those infamous parties he throws. With Diddy being a frequent guest on Ellen’s show over the years, fans are now revisiting his past interviews where he openly talks about his wild parties.

Is that going to be a new thing? Are you going to try to be early? Yes, I’m trying to be early. Are you going to be early for my party? Yes, I am. No, no, you know I have to arrive fashionably late. Alright, not too late, though. Not too late, not too late, please. What time would you like me to… um, I’ll tell you later, but not too late because, you know, once you get there, the party really starts. Yeah, you know what I’m saying? I got you; I promise you, I’m not going to let you down on this big one. Alright, for real. Good, your shoes, your feet are going to have blisters; you’re going to be dancing so hard. I can’t wait.

Boy, oh boy, Ellen, I love you. I know you didn’t ask where I’ve just come from, but I just got off a plane. I’m on tour; I just did five nights in a row. I walked in with an IV. I know I walked back there, and he’s literally holding an IV. You just took that out yourself? So, no money on you? I mean, it’s just a little bit of money on me, of me. Oh, you do have money on you. Lord have mercy, where are you going after this? What are you doing? You know what, you know we’re doing what we’re planning to do, girl, but we go so far back, you don’t tell these people how far back we go. I know, but I wear t-shirts. I don’t know what that means, anyway. Alright, let’s, I mean, you hold that. It would take two if the joke didn’t work. I didn’t mean I don’t want no problems. No, it’s okay. Hold on, um, hey, so cheers, name three more terms for making love.

Um, okay, um, turkey sandwich.

And thank you sandwich. No, I mean, this is a daytime show; I’m a Scorpio. The things that, when I’m saying the cold words I have for making love, should not be on the Ellen show. Okay, alright, now let’s be clear. Ellen hasn’t faced any major criminal allegations like Diddy, but she does have that reputation as the meanest woman in Hollywood. And at the end of the day, both Diddy and Ellen have crafted public personas that don’t necessarily reflect their true selves. I decided to change my name again. I’m just, I’m just not who I am before; I’m something different. So, my new name is Love, AKA Brother Love. I will not be answering to Puffy, Diddy, Puff Daddy, or any of my other monikers but love or brother love, okay. It’s my birthday; I feel good, God is the greatest, I give all glory, and I thank my mama and daddy. In a bombshell lawsuit, Cassie alleges the Bad Boy Records music mogul physically abused her throughout their 10-year relationship, which began when she was 19 years old, and he was 37. What do you want to do, want to be ballers, shot callers? The lawsuit headlines with a trigger warning for containing graphics information describing in detail allegations in which Combs would force Cassie to take drugs, wear masks, and perform on other men so he could watch. Cassie says Combs hurt her when she tried to leave him; she says he beat her, then made her stay in hotels or his home until the bruises healed, and his security would make sure she did what Combs wanted, or else.

A fourth woman is now suing music mogul Sean Combs, claiming he hurt her when she was just a teenager. The woman claims the president of Combs’ Bad Boy Records picked her up when she was just 17 years old and still in high school. This was back in Michigan in 2003. She was flown in a private jet to New York and met with Combs during a recording session. The woman claims that Combs and others got her drunk and then took advantage of her before putting her on a plane back to Detroit.

I don’t know if you know this, but it’s World Kindness Day. It is. Since I preach kindness every day, this is a big one for me. This is like my Super Bowl, or My World Series, or my, I don’t know, any other sports, that’s all. US Open or Wimbledon, or same sport, anyway. I’ve always said that kindness should be taught in schools because I really believe that’s something that kids should start early, learning about, and look what I read this morning. I’ve been studying kindness for the past 17 years on this show, and I thought I could help with some research. That you know, like, I don’t know, these are things that I’ve learned, so, uh, consider me your professor; this is like Kindness 101. So, pay attention, this is on the midterm. Um, so, we all know that receiving an act of kindness feels great, but the act of being kind also has great benefits; it reduces anxiety, depression, pain, stress. So the next time somebody cuts you off in traffic, you just be kind. Don’t go crazy and stress yourself out; that’s not doing anything. So roll the window down and yell out, “That must have been a really important text, congratulations, you know.”

Um, or if they cut you off because they’re not paying attention, and they’re putting on makeup, you’re like, roll you into, you don’t need makeup, you’re beautiful, you know, just find a thing to turn it around. This TV producer is speaking out on camera for the first time about what it was like working for Ellen DeGeneres. Toxic, phony, hypocrite, liar, that’s what she is. Hedda Muskat was with Ellen from the beginning, in 2003 when the talk show was launched. We were told from the very beginning, “Don’t talk to Ellen, don’t do this, you can’t go into her office.” It was very nerve-wracking, very stressful. We all walked on eggshells all the time. One incident with executive producer Ed Glavin left her shaken. We were in our production meetings, and she would watch Ed go off on people. Ellen would look at Ed, and she would laugh because I was hoping she was going to say, “Ed, you can’t be yelling at crew this way, you can’t be yelling at people this way.” She laughed, and she said, “Every production needs their dog,” meaning like, meaning Ed is her dog. This former waitress claims she was threatened with a two-week suspension after Ellen DeGeneres complained about, of all things, her chipped fingernail polish. I remember just being like, really?

Chris Ferah says it happened when Ellen and Portia de Rossi had Sunday brunch at the high-end vegan restaurant in West Hollywood, where she was waiting tables, but a week later, Ferah says her boss got an email from the talk show queen. They were like, “We have to talk to you.” She emailed the owner of the restaurant and complained about your chipped nail polish. What? And I was like, “What?” Ferah says in a bid to placate the high-profile celebrity, her boss hit her with a two-week suspension, at no pay. She got so upset, she quit. They were going to suspend me if I hadn’t quit for the two weeks. What would you say to Ellen? I would say, “What is happening in your life that you aren’t already busy with the bountiful grace that’s happening to your wealth, your influence? Why do you have the time to mess with someone who was just serving you?”

Now, despite ongoing whispers about Ellen being a nightmare to work with, she managed to hush up most of the talk. That is until 2016, when Kathy Griffin spilled the tea in her memoir about an encounter with a certain beloved daytime talk show host with short blonde hair. She was furious. She just really was on a rant because I had mentioned on your show that, you know, I wish that women would support each other more, in particular, super, super influential women. There are so few female comics over 50 that are making a living or doing okay, like we need to support each other. I expressed that to her, and she was like, “I don’t have to have anybody on my show I don’t like, and I don’t want.” I said, “I know.”

Jump ahead a few years, and more celebrities began airing their grievances about Ellen’s less than friendly behavior. Meanwhile, clips of her being rude and making celebs uncomfortable started circulating on social media. The other thing is that people are saying that you’re pregnant. There are rumors. Don’t discuss that. Alright, well, you don’t have to. That’s okay. No, honestly, you don’t have to answer. Let’s just toast with champagne and decide. They been saying that since we… Oh, I can have some champagne. It’s just fattening, so I can’t have champagne. That’s not champagne, ’cause you can’t, is it really? Yeah, you want to, you want to taste it? I can’t believe you did this to me, Ellen. What? No, are you trying? I’m not going to ask you if you’re pregnant. I’m not going to pressure you. See what Ellen is doing? This is peer pressure. No, let’s toast to you not being pregnant, if you’re not pregnant, then we should… Oh my goodness. Alright, let’s talk about the show. You got renewed for three more years.

[Applause]

Congratulations. Grateful, yeah. I mean, you’re an OG in this game, you know what it is. Yeah, it’s really amazing. I mean, as we know, talk shows come and go. To be able to stay on the air, it’s a big deal. Yeah, well, um, in 2020, we will be 11 years old, just, and there’s no real reason to say that a show is going to last just because you get one season, so I’m very grateful.

Yeah, much as I want to not like him, I love his new song, and he really is cute. And so, people say that he looks like you. I’ve heard that. You’ve never heard that. They say it in a good way. Who? He, his, his. Okay, what’s the song? What’s the song? Baby, baby, oh. I forgot, I forgot the name of the new one. That’s not new, no. No, what’s his new song called? I forget. I know all the words. Sorry. Do I look like Justin Bieber? No, they have made the equation. Well, that’s in a good way. I don’t mind that. He’s cute. He’s adorable. Yeah, yeah, that was the party I wasn’t invited to. Actually, no, that’s not the truth, Ellen. You were invited last year. No, last time I was on the show, last year, you gave me a bunch of crap about not inviting you, but I didn’t even know you wanted to be invited. Well, who doesn’t want to be invited to a party? Well, I didn’t even know you liked me. Of course, I like you. You knew I liked you. You’ve been on the show many times, and don’t I show like… Yeah, do. Yeah, but I did invite you, and you didn’t come. So this time, you invited me? Yeah. Are you sure? Yeah. How do you know? I don’t think so. Ask everybody. Ask Jonathan, your producer, who said you were. I was invited. Why didn’t I go? I don’t know. Was it, was it out of… Oh yeah, I had that thing. Um, it was probably in Malibu. That’s too far for me to go to. Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah, no, I think I do remember. Remember, I was invited. Thank you. You’re welcome. Um, no, but I really didn’t remember that until just now. Um, and then, but Tig Notaro performed at your party. She did, she did a set. She did. It was a surprise. What did she do? A bunch of funny stuff. She’s hilarious. She’s my favorite comedian.

To make a quick comparison, Diddy had a moment on the Jimmy Kimmel show last year that felt eerily similar to what went down between Dakota and Ellen just a few weeks before Cassie dropped her lawsuit bombshell last November. Diddy showed up on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and when Jimmy mentioned Diddy’s ex-bodyguard, Jean Deal, and all those crazy accusations he made, you could practically see the love mask slipping from Diddy’s face. I saw a guy on the internet the other day who said he used to be your security guard, who said that when you were dating J.Lo, Will Smith and Jada tried to pick her up on a threesome, and you were going to beat up Will Smith. Is that true? This show’s gotten crazier since the last time I… No, it’s all about love, though. That’s not true. You really heard that? No, yeah, yeah, I watched it on the internet. You’re telling me I can’t believe everything I read. What? I don’t know what you’re talking about, Jimmy. I thought we were friends. Where did this… Did you just go by the way?

Isn’t it ironic how both Ellen and Diddy were always preaching about kindness and love? I mean, Ellen practically built her brand around that “be kind to everyone” mantra, and then Diddy has been doing that whole “I am love” act for a few years now. When I say “be kind to one another,” I don’t mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone. Remind myself, we live in a toxic world, and it’s love versus hate. That’s what’s going on right now, and I choose love. That’s my new name, and love wins. Love wins.

Let’s face it, another thing people are saying Diddy and Ellen have in common is how they reportedly mistreat their romantic partners. The lawsuit headlines with a trigger warning for containing graphics information describing in detail allegations in which Combs would force Cassie to take drugs, wear masks, and perform on other men so he could watch. Cassie says Combs hurt her when she tried to leave him.