Ellen Says She's Just 'Introverted,' Not Mean

Ellen DeGeneres responded to criticism that she is "mean" when she addressed the staff of her daytime talkshow on Monday, according to the Daily Mail.

The outlet's report offers an inside track on what what was said at the meeting, where the beleaguered star "opened up about being 'introverted' and how she sometimes has 'good days and bad days' which she understands could come across as being mean, but vowed to make changes going forward, in a bid to salvage 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show.'"

"DeGeneres was emotional to the point of tears," writes Variety, "and apologetic as she addressed more than 200 staffers. According to multiple sources, DeGeneres told the staff she was 'not perfect' and realized that in the effort for the show to run as a 'well-oiled machine,' sometimes leaders were not as sensitive to 'human beings' as they should have been. She added that reading disturbing allegations about the atmosphere on the show was 'heartbreaking.'"

"I'm hearing that some people felt that I wasn't kind or too short with them, or too impatient. I apologize to anybody if I've hurt your feelings in any way," she told her staff in the video meeting.

Ellen also addressed the issue of her not wanting to make eye contact with the staff. ""I don't know where it started," she told staff . Calling it "insane," she added: "It's crazy, just not true, I don't know how it started. [It's] not who I am."

According to Page Six, DeGeneres plans to interact with her staff more while working on the show's upcoming season, which she was excited to get back to.

At the meeting three high level producers were fired: executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman and co-executive producer Jonathan Norman after blistering reports from various websites, most notably Buzzfeed, of the toxic work environment on the show.

"DeGeneres again apologized to her staff," sources told Deadline. "She was personal, opening up about being introverted and having good days and bad days, which causes her to sometimes keep to herself in her own space, something she acknowledged could be misconstrued as her not being nice."

"Does that mean I'm perfect? No. I'm not," DeGeneres reportedly said. "I'm a multi-layered person, and I try to be the best person I can be and try to learn from my mistakes."

The investigation of the show by WarnerMedia, which included more than interviews, "did not find evidence that the show fostered a racist work environment but did uncover occasional incidents of racial insensitivity, something the Ellen executive producers, speaking on the video call, vowed to correct," writes Deadline.