Ellen DeGeneres was unapologetic as she addressed the controversy which led her to exit the leisure two years in the past.Throughout Monday’s present of “Ellen’s Final Stand…Up” tour in Santa Rosa, California, SFGATE reported that the comic brazenly balked at the concept that she’s a merciless individual, telling audiences, “I’m many issues, however I’m not imply.”DeGeneres’ popularity for being imply made headlines in 2020, after BuzzFeed Information printed a report that includes the accounts of almost a dozen present and former staff who anonymously accused the previous discuss present host of fostering a poisonous work surroundings on the set of her eponymous daytime collection.Undermining her public motto of “be sort,” DeGeneres and executives on the present had been accused of recurrently making inappropriate feedback about staff’ race, firing workers for taking medical go away and making a normal tradition of worry on the office.Within the fallout, the “Discovering Nemo” voice expertise made a public apology, and in Might 2021, she introduced “The Ellen DeGeneres” can be ending after its nineteenth season.At Monday’s present, DeGeneres gleefully made gentle of the scandal, kicking off her set by saying, “Let me catch you up on what’s been occurring with me because you final noticed me.”Open Picture ModalEllen DeGeneres attends the 2019 premiere of “Inexperienced Eggs and Ham.” The previous discuss present host addressed allegations that she’s been a “imply” individual throughout a efficiency in California on Monday.VALERIE MACON through Getty ImagesBrushing previous the elephant within the room, she paused and soaked within the viewers’s laughter earlier than joking, “I bought chickens.”“Oh yeah, and I bought kicked out of present enterprise for being imply,” DeGeneres then added.Throughout her efficiency, the actor admitted to being a harsh boss however pushed again on accusations she was outright nasty.“I might be demanding and impatient and difficult. I’m a robust girl,” she stated.Elsewhere through the present, DeGeneres reminded audiences how she already endured a Hollywood ouster after publicly popping out as a lesbian in 1997.“Subsequent time, I’ll be kicked out for being previous,” she quipped. “Previous, homosexual and imply, the triple crown.”The star additionally confirmed that the tour and its accompanying Netflix particular can be her final hurrah, telling followers, “That is the final time you’re going to see me. After my Netflix particular, I’m carried out.”Not lengthy after SFGATE printed its account of DeGeneres’ standup present, Deadline reported that a number of tour dates in Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago had been abruptly canceled.