Margaret Cho revealed a decades-long rift with fellow standup comic Ellen DeGeneres.
“Ellen was actually bizarre and never good to me for many of my profession,” Cho, 56, declared on the “Kelly Mantle Present” podcast on Friday, June 20. “I opened for her within the Nineteen Eighties, when she was a headliner in comedy golf equipment. Later, once I would do her discuss present within the 2000s, she would act like we simply met!”
Cho added, “I’m like, ‘Bitch, what?’ That’s bizarre. We go approach again. It’s so creepy and bizarre!”
She recalled an incident that allegedly occurred when she attended a David Bowie live performance whereas sporting a“big Chinese language emperor outfit.” In keeping with Cho, Bowie complimented her outfit throughout an look on The Ellen DeGeneres Present the following day, however the whole anecdote was minimize from the episode.
“It made me so mad,” she remembered. “The producer, who was a extremely good pal of mine, needed to name and inform me, ‘I can’t imagine she did this however she minimize it out of the present. However it’s essential know that he was occurring and on about your outfit! God mentioned your identify.’”
Cho insisted, “[It’s] so impolite! I don’t know if it was private, perhaps it [cut] was for time. However nonetheless, I’m going to take it personally simply because I made a decision to.”
Us Weekly has reached out to DeGeneres’ consultant for remark.
Cho just isn’t the one comic to publicly take problem with DeGeneres. Rosie O’Donnell completely instructed Us in Might that, whereas she holds no “malice” in direction of DeGeneres, they’d “some stuff prior to now that [they] by no means resolved.”
“Not in any approach as, as companions or lovers or something like that, simply as mates and comedians, however I want her the very best. I severely do,” she instructed Us. “I believe that there’s sufficient room on the planet for the entire homosexual comedians, and all of us want to stay collectively as a result of homosexual individuals are the following group to be threatened. And the way in which they assault trans folks is completely terrifying. If folks don’t perceive that they’re an important a part of the LBGTQIA+ group, that’s tragic.”
Portia de Rossi, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell in 2006. Mathew Imaging/FilmMagic
O’Donnell admitted she was shocked to listen to that DeGeneres and her spouse, Portia de Rossi, moved from the U.S. to the English countryside following President Donald Trump’s election victory in November 2024. (O’Donnell relocated together with her 12-year-old baby, Clay, to Eire previous to Trump’s inauguration in January.)
“I’ve by no means actually identified Ellen to say something political in her life, so I used to be shocked to learn that she left due to President Trump. Like, that shocked me, truly,” O’Donnell admitted to Us. “I’ve been a political individual my complete life, not higher or worse, it’s only a completely different technique to be on the planet.”
The previous Rosie O’Donnell Present host continued, “I used to be very clear concerning the motive why I used to be leaving, and I don’t suppose it got here as a shock to anybody. We’re not likely in one another’s worlds, and it’s been type of awkward however you already know what? I want her the very best. I want that she has peace and love in her life and that she is OK.”
Kathy Griffin has additionally publicly feuded with DeGeneres for years, together with just lately opening up about their falling out through her YouTube channel.
“I’ve a loathing for her that’s epic,” she mentioned in April. “I do know plenty of it’s jealousy. I get it. She’s far more profitable than I’ll ever be. … You’re welcome, Ellen. That’s approach nicer than something you’ve ever mentioned about me or ever will.”
DeGeneres has largely stayed out of the general public eye since shifting to the U.Okay., apart from sharing occasional social media posts from her English farmhouse.
