Katy Perry is showing support to talk show host, and her good friend, Ellen DeGeneres as she faces intense scrutiny and the most challenging time of her career. This comes after several reports emerged of her allegedly, allowing a toxic work environment to flourish behind the scenes of her popular daytime talk show.
Katy Perry who joined other celebrities to show solidarity to Ellen DeGeneres, said she is showing support to the host of ‘The Ellen Show’ based on her personal experience with her which she said has always been positive.
Taking to her social media page, she made a post where she said:
“I know I can’t speak for anyone else’s experience besides my own but I want to acknowledge that I have only ever had positive takeaways from my time with Ellen & on the @theellenshow,” she started her post.
She continued saying:
“I think we all have witnessed the light & continual fight for equality that she has brought to the world through her platform for decades. Sending you love & a hug, friend @TheEllenShow,” she added.
Muskat said she was present when executive producer Ed Glavin when on a tirade against one of the show’s staff members. “He just went off on them. His whole face turned red. We were stunned,” she said.
Instead of stopping the behavior, Muskat says that DeGeneres laughed and seemed to encourage it, calling Glavin her “dog.”
“I was waiting for Ellen to say something. ‘Whoa, Ed, don’t talk like that,'” Do you know what she did? She giggled. She crossed her legs up on the chair and she said, ‘Well, I guess every production needs their dog’ … And from then we knew. Ed was going to be the barking dog — her dog.”
She went on to explain that everyone else who was there during the incident was in shock.
“You could just see everybody’s faces go stiff. We’re professionals; we’re adults. We don’t need a dog to get us to do our jobs… She was the only one giggling,” Muskat said. “Ed didn’t act independently… Ed was a bully, but he worked for Ellen. It was her show.”
Muskat says she was fired abruptly by Glavin 2004 after the show was nominated for a Daytime Emmy.
“They call me in and Ed says, ‘Congratulations on the nomination. We really appreciate what you’ve done, but we no longer need your services,'” she said.
Many of the accusations surrounding the show have involved Glavin, and it is now being reported that he’s resigning.
“It will not make a difference. Because [Ellen] is who she is,” Muskat said of the move.
Glavin, along with fellow executive producers Mary Connelly and Andy Lassner, issued a statement last week addressing the allegation.
“Over the course of nearly two decades, 3,000 episodes, and employing over 1000 staff members, we have strived to create an open, safe, and inclusive work environment,” it read.
“We are truly heartbroken and sorry to learn that even one person in our production family has had a negative experience. It’s not who we are and not who we strive to be, and not the mission Ellen has set for us.”
Ellen DeGeneres has since apologised, but some fans are asking she should be dropped as the host for ‘The Ellen Show’.