Ellen DeGeneres Gets SUED

Former talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has been sued in a California court.

A woman has filed a lawsuit against DeGeneres after claiming the former talk show host t-bonded her in Santa Barbara.

The lawsuit claims Degeneres was acting in “negligent conduct” when she “t-boned” a woman back in 2023.

The New York Post reported more in-depth on the lawsuit:

Ellen DeGeneres has been accused of causing a 2023 car crash, according to a new complaint obtained by Fox News Digital.

A woman claims the former talk show host “t-boned” her vehicle at a four-way stop intersection in Santa Barbara County.

DeGeneres’ “negligent conduct” allegedly caused or contributed to the plaintiff’s “serious personal injuries,” according to the complaint filed in Los Angeles County court.

On Oct. 16, 2023, the plaintiff claimed she was the restrained driver in her Tesla vehicle, which was traveling northbound on Evans Avenue near the intersection of Ortega Hill Road, the complaint stated.

“This intersection is controlled by stop signs in all directions. Plaintiff stopped for her stop sign,” according to the complaint. “She made sure there were no other vehicles at the intersection, and it was her way to proceed.

“As she was proceeding straight through the intersection, suddenly and without any warning, plaintiff’s vehicle was t-boned from the right by the vehicle driven by Ellen DeGeneres injuring” her, the filing states.

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Ellen DeGeneres has since left the United States after President Trump was elected for a second term.

BBC reported more details on DeGeneres’s fleeing the United States:

US TV star Ellen DeGeneres has made her first public appearance since moving to the UK, saying she decided to settle in England the day after Donald Trump was re-elected US president.

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The comedian and host told a crowd in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, that life “is just better” in the UK.

Ellen said she and wife Portia de Rossi were considering getting married again in England after some moves in the US to reverse the right to gay marriage, and that America can still be “scary for people to be who they are”.

She also addressed allegations of a toxic workplace that led to the end of her long-running chat show in 2022, admitting she could be “very blunt”, but dismissed the stories as “clickbait”.

“We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in’,” she said. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here’.”