Ellen DeGeneres Fat-Shammed 11-Year-Old Boy, Bullied & Called Him Stupid

Ellen DeGeneres Bullied An 11-Year-Old Boy, Fat Shamed & Called Him Stupid In The ’70s

Ellen DeGeneres has been under heavy criticism in recent weeks for hosting a toxic work environment behind the scenes of her talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She reportedly wants to end the show following investigation on mistreatment and discrimination.

To make matter worse, Ellen DeGeneres reportedly bullied an 11-year-old boy in the 1970s, making fun of him for his weight, the victim recounts in a recent interview with DailyMailTV.

The victim whose name is Ben Gravolet says DeGeneres, who would’ve been in her early 20s at the time, worked for his mother’s recruitment agency while he was a child and would routinely insult him. “She would criticize my weight,” Ben said.

“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 was just a boy and this was a grown woman who took pleasure in seeing me become visibly upset. I don’t think there’s any excuse for it. I was a defenseless kid. What could I have told her back?”

He continued, “It has an effect if somebody in a superior position to you, who’s much older, goes ‘You’re fat. You might want to lose some of that weight chunky boy.’ I was always self-conscious about my weight and it made things worse.”

Gravolet who is now 52 and also works as vice president of a New Orleans marketing agency, said the comedian “was just the meanest, nastiest, most horrible person.”

“One incident stands out in my mind,’ he told the media outlet. ‘I was sitting beside her desk. I was drawing, and she criticized the drawings. Ellen allegedly 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,’ he said. ‘Who takes pleasure in giving a child pain?”

“It appears to me that she hoards power over those that are lesser than her. It’s almost as if she has to feel controlling. It seems like she has to be superior, be better.”

Gravolet’s angry mother, Tana Robinson, told DailyMailTV Ellen was ‘extremely rude’ but that she only found out about the alleged bullying of her son a few weeks ago.