DeGeneres: “I’m a pretty good actress.
“If you’re watching, because you love me, thank you,” DeGeneres says.
“If you’re watching it because you don’t love me, welcome.
How was everybody’s summer?
Yeah, mine wasgreat.
I’m so happy to be back in the studio.
There are a lot of things I want to talk about.
“And then there was an investigation.
I learned that things happened here that never should have happened.
I take that very seriously.
And I want to say, I am so sorry to the people who were affected.
I know that I’m in a position of privilege and power.
I realized that with that comes responsibility and I take responsibility for what happens at my show.
This isThe Ellen DeGeneres Show.
I am Ellen DeGeneres.
My name is there.
My name is there.
My name is on underwear.
We have made the necessary changes.
And today we are starting a new chapter.”
“And here’s how that happened.
I thought the world needed more kindness.
And it was a reminder that we all needed that.
And I think we need it more than ever right now.
Being known as the ‘Be Kind Lady’ is a tricky position to be in.
So let me give you some advice out there.
“The truth is I am that person that you see on TV.
I am also a lot of other things.
I sometimes I get sad.
And I am working on all of that.
I am a talk show host and you know that.
But maybe some of you know I was an actress.
I’ve played a straight woman in movies.
So I’m a pretty good actress.
And my intention is to always be the best person I can be.
I look at everything that comes into my life as an opportunity to learn.
I got into this business to make people laugh and feel good.”
“Now I am a boss of 270 people, 270 people who help make this show.
I want is for every single one of them to be happy and to be proud to work here.
This has been a horrible summer for people all around the world.
People are losing their jobs.
People are losing loved ones to a pandemic.
People are losing their homes and lives in raging fires that are going on.
There’s blatant racial injustice all around us.
I watched the news and I feel like where, where do we even begin?
So my hope is that we can still be a place of happiness and joy.
I still want to be the one hour a day that people can go to escape and laugh.
I want to continue to help all the people that we help every day.
And I’m committed to making this the best season that we have ever had.”
DeGeneres, meanwhile, repeatedly apologized to her staff.
Does that mean Im perfect?
Im not,” she was heard saying.
The staff was also given a newperks package that included additional paid time offand an improved medical leave policy.
