Yesterday, we reported that Ellen DeGeneres had broken down during a video conference call with her staffers as she apologized after dozens of them accused her of turning a blind eye to racism, intimidation, and sexual misconduct on the set of her talk show. Now, more details about this call are coming to light.

Sources told Page Six that during the Zoom call with over 200 staffers, DeGeneres addressed the persistent rumor that no staff members were allowed to look her in the eye.

“I don’t know where it started,” said DeGeneres, 62. “Please talk to me. Look me in the eye.”

She went on to describe this rumor as “insane,” adding, “It’s crazy, just not true, I don’t know how it started. [It’s] not who I am.”

This comes one month after a producer on Australia’s “Today” show spoke out to reveal the alleged bizarre demands DeGeneres had while appearing on the show.

“She’ll come in, she’ll sit down, she’ll talk to Richard and then Ellen will leave,’” Neil Breen remembered her staff telling him. “And I sort of said, ‘I can’t look at her?’ I found the whole thing bizarre.”

On Monday’s call, sources said Degeneres pledged to interact with her staff more while working on the show’s upcoming season, which she expressed excitement about starting next month.

Multiple sources said that DeGeneres told her employees that she is “not perfect” and realized that in the effort for the show to run as a “well-oiled machine,” sometimes leaders were not as sensitive to “human beings” as they should have been. The seasoned talk show host reportedly went on to say that reading the disturbing allegations about the toxic atmosphere on the show was “heartbreaking.”

It was also revealed on Monday that executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman, and co-executive producer Jonathan Norman have all been fired from “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” A spokesman for Warner Bros. confirmed that the three men have “parted ways” with the show.

Meanwhile, “Ellen” veterans Mary Connelly, Andy Lassner and Derek Westervel are set to stay on as executive producers alongside DeGeneres. Connelly, Lassner and Westervelt have each been with the talk show since it premiered back in 2003.

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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