Ellen DeGeneres Addresses Her Talk Show Controversy on Stand-Up Tour [Video]

“I got kicked out of show business. There’s no mean people in show business,” DeGeneres said, according to Rolling Stone. “The ‘be kind’ girl wasn’t kind. I became this one-dimensional character who gave stuff away and danced up steps.”

“Do you know how hard it is to dance up steps? Would a mean person dance up steps?” she questioned. “Had I ended my show by saying, ‘Go f**k yourself,’ people would’ve been pleasantly surprised.”

DeGeneres admitted that the situation was “such a toll on my ego and my self-esteem.”

“There’s such extremes in this business, people either love you and idolize you or they hate you, and those people somehow are louder,” she said.

The outlet additionally reported that, during her Wednesday set at the Largo in Los Angeles, DeGeneres said, “I used to say that I didn’t care what other people thought of me and I realized…I said that at …