Ellen DeGeneres is desperate to get her “nice” image back and is now even playing the sympathy card in a last-ditch effort to try to win back her former fans’ good graces, a source exclusively tells In Touch.
On her recent Netflix stand-up special, For Your Approval, the toxic talk-show host, 66, announced she’s been diagnosed with OCD — obsessive-compulsive disorder — osteoporosis and ADD — attention deficit disorder.
And although she also said she doesn’t care what people think about her anymore, an insider says, “Ellen desperately wants to be loved again so she can relaunch her career.”
The source adds the revelations are just “a clinical grab for attention.”
Ironically in 2019, the stand-up comic whined about being boxed in by her “nice” persona. But she was canceled the next year after staff members on The Ellen DeGeneres Show revealed she was actually a difficult diva who created a climate of “racism, fear and intimidation” on the set.
“She’s got more money than she wants or needs but she misses the attention, the adulation,” spills the source. “And she wants it back in the worst way!”
In her streaming special — which bombed — Ellen claims, “I’ve spent an entire lifetime trying to make people happy, and I’ve cared far too much what other people think of me. So the thought of anyone thinking I was mean was devastating to me.”
“Despite what Ellen says, I think she cares very much what people think of her,” psychologist Dr. Gilda Carle tells In Touch.
“It’s a human desire to want people to like us. And she went out badly. So, she may feel that she wants to restore her reputation.”
“And when she says that she has OCD, ADD and osteoporosis, I think she’s saying, ‘I want you to like me, but please understand I’m a victim too!’”
