Ellen DeGeneres Bids Farewell To Hollywood: 'This Is The Last Time You'll See Me'
Ellen DeGeneres is "done" with Hollywood.
The 66-year-old comedian and former television host recently revealed that she is leaving the spotlight for good after her ongoing "Ellen's Last Stand...Up" tour wraps and her new Netflix special is released.
During a stop at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, California, DeGeneres was asked by a fan if there was a possibility that she would return to filming movies or make a Broadway appearance after completing her final tour.
"Um, no," DeGeneres responded, according to SFGate. "This is the last time you're going to see me. After my Netflix special, I'm done."
Another fan asked if she would ever voice again the character Dory from "Finding Nemo" and "Finding Dory."
But DeGeneres made it clear that even voice acting was out of the question.
"No, I'm going bye-bye, remember," she said during the Q&A.
DeGeneres announced her farewell tour and final stand-up comedy special back in May.
Since kicking off the multi-city stand-up tour last month, she has addressed the end of the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" as well as the accusations that she allegedly fostered an unhealthy and toxic workplace.
The allegations stemmed from a 2020 BuzzFeed News report, in which current and former staffers of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" claimed that they suffered mistreatment, sexual harassment, racism and bullying on the set.
Less than a year after the report was published, DeGeneres announced that her eponymous daytime talk show would be ending with its 19th season. The final "Ellen" episode aired in 2022.
During her set, DeGeneres joked that she got "kicked out of show business" for being "mean."
But she insisted that while she's a "strong woman" who can be "demanding and impatient and tough," she was "not mean."
"I used to say, 'I don't care what people say about me.' Now I realize I said that during the height of my popularity," DeGeneres said.
During a post-set Q&A at her West Hollywood stop in April, the comedian admitted that the way her show ended was "so hurtful" to her.
"I just thought, 'Well this is not the way I wanted to end my career, but this is the way it's ending.' ... I just hated the way the show ended," she explained, according to Rolling Stone. "I love that show so much and I just hated that the last time people would see me is that way."
Degeneres' "Ellen's Last Stand...Up" tour concludes on Aug. 17 with a stop in Minneapolis.
