Watch Alec Baldwin Encourage Ellen DeGeneres to “Maintain Going” After “Poisonous” Office Allegations

Referencing the controversy she has confronted in current months, Baldwin continued, “All of us have some patches of white water right here, however you retain going. Do not you cease doing what you are doing.”
 
DeGeneres was appreciative. “Thanks a lot, Alec,” she informed him. “Meaning a lot to me. I recognize it.”
 
“Yeah, there have been some rapids,” she quipped, “and I’m maneuvering the raft.”

The longtime host addressed these “rapids” in a gap monologue throughout the season premiere on Monday, Sept. 21. “As you might have heard, this summer time there have been allegations of a poisonous work surroundings at our present after which there was an investigation,” she mentioned, addressing the claims with viewers for the primary time. “I discovered that issues occurred right here that by no means ought to have occurred. I take that very critically and I wish to say I’m so sorry to the individuals who have been affected.”

She took duty for what occurs at her namesake present and warranted followers that “now we have made the mandatory modifications and right now we’re beginning a brand new chapter.”