Greyson Likelihood says Ellen DeGeneres ‘deserted’ him, calls her ‘manipulative’ and ‘opportunistic’ – Nationwide

Greyson Likelihood has come a good distance from being the 12-year-old boy who rocketed to fame after his viral Paparazzi cowl was shared on The Ellen DeGeneres Present in 2010.

In a current interview with Rolling Stone, Likelihood, now 25, spoke about his former mentor DeGeneres for the primary time, claiming he has “by no means met somebody extra manipulative, extra self-centred, and extra blatantly opportunistic.”

Although Likelihood informed the outlet DeGeneres performed a really key function in his early profession, he stated the speak present host later “utterly deserted” him.

As of this writing, DeGeneres has not publicly responded to Likelihood’s claims. A consultant from The Ellen Present informed People who DeGeneres and her workers “went above and past to assist set him up for fulfillment, however in enterprise that doesn’t all the time work out, and his profession didn’t take off.”

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Likelihood met DeGeneres after she requested him to look on The Ellen Present to debate the video of his cowl of Girl Gaga’s Paparazzi — a efficiency shakily recorded in Likelihood’s Oklahoma center college gymnasium when he was in Grade 6. The video has 71 million views.

Likelihood stated when he and his mom arrived at The Ellen Present, DeGeneres informed Likelihood’s mother “You’re by no means going to must work once more a day in your life.”

He was the primary artist to signal to DeGeneres’ file label eleveneleven. Likelihood was arrange with high-profile expertise managers and a staff of workers, together with a reserving agent, publicist and a model agent, all within the hopes he might turn out to be the subsequent Justin Bieber.

To Rolling Stone, Likelihood claimed DeGeneres was a “hidden eye” in his early profession, closely controlling the boy’s busy touring and press schedules, clothes and actions.

He alleged DeGeneres shouted at each he and his mom over the cellphone when he didn’t watch a prescreening of Bieber’s then-upcoming tour documentary By no means Say By no means. Likelihood stated when he — on the time, a minor who was working 14 to 16 hour days — didn’t discover the time to look at the documentary, DeGeneres aggressively scolded him over the cellphone.

“I’ll always remember this,” Likelihood informed Rolling Stone. “I simply keep in mind listening to on the opposite facet of the cellphone, simply yelling (and) beratement: ‘What sort of mom are you? Do you notice that I went out of my strategy to get this for you, and he can’t sit down and watch it?’”

When Likelihood’s 2012 EP Fact Be Instructed, Half 1 underperformed, DeGeneres allegedly disappeared from his life utterly, together with the staff she’d curated for him on the file label.

Lisa Likelihood, Likelihood’s mom, informed Rolling Stone she thinks DeGeneres is a “businesswoman” earlier than the rest.

“If one thing isn’t trending the way in which she desires it to, she’s going to place an finish to it as a result of it’s enterprise for her. It’s not heat and fuzzy,” Likelihood’s mom stated. “I don’t suppose she invited folks to be part of her life or take somebody below their wing like she did if she didn’t wish to see one thing come of it. If it wasn’t transferring quick sufficient for her, that’s when she began to close down or shut us out.”

Likelihood isn’t the primary individual to accuse DeGeneres of unsavoury behaviour. A Buzzfeed exposé in 2020 alleged DeGeneres would berate staff and was answerable for making a “poisonous work surroundings” within the TV studio. DeGeneres addressed the allegations through the remaining season of The Ellen Present and apologized to “the individuals who had been affected.”

Likelihood appeared on The Ellen Present even after his falling out with DeGeneres (and a break from music) in 2019. In the course of the TV program, she congratulated the younger singer on popping out as homosexual. Likelihood stated after years of non-contact, the congratulations felt “low cost.”

Likelihood claimed he was requested a number of instances to return to The Ellen Present in its remaining season, although he declined all invites for his “integrity.”

On Twitter, Likelihood shared a hyperlink to the Rolling Stone article (which he stated is the one time he’ll converse publicly about DeGeneres). He claimed his new album, Palladium, “compelled me to look lifeless within the eyes of my previous, and reconcile with what I went by as a child.”

“The primary a part of my profession, I owe numerous because of her and to that staff. However the cause why I’m right here in the present day speaking about an album, I owe f—ing nothing to her,” Likelihood informed Rolling Stone. “As a result of I used to be the one which needed to pull myself up. She was nowhere to be discovered.”