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Ellen DeGeneres is officially calling it quits. The comedian and host of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” which ended in 2022, is currently on a . She told audiences at the Santa Rosa leg of her tour on July 3 that the tour really farewell.

“This is the last time you’re going to see me. After my Netflix special, I’m done,” she said July 3, . When an audience member asked if she would reprise her role as Dory in "Finding Nemo," she held firm.



“No, I’m going bye-bye, remember,” she said. The tour, and her remarks, comes almost four years after into her talk show for an allegedly toxic work environment. The investigation was sparked by a 2020 in which one employee and 10 former staffers of DeGeneres' show said they faced "racism, fear and intimidation" behind-the-scenes.

DeGeneres was not specifically called out in the article, but the incidents were at odds with the show's feel-good atmosphere. Following an internal investigation, three departed from the show in August 2020. She announced, in May 2021, the .

During her recent set in Santa Rosa, DeGeneres referred to the fallout, saying, “Oh yeah, and I got kicked out of show business for being mean.” In an interview with TODAY in March 2021, DeGeneres said she wasn't aware of her show's problems until reading about them in the media, and called herself a "kind person." “I don’t know how I could have known when there’s 225 employees here and there are a lot of different buildings,” she told Savannah Guthri.

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