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, the show's eponymous host came right out with it. Her opening monologue directly addressed allegations of employee mistreatment on her set, as laid out in a disturbingreport earlier this summer. Although not those more shadowy rumors about her celebrity guests feeling uncomfortable during interviews.
After joking sarcastically about having had a relaxing summer, the woman whose supposed mantra is literally"be kind" took responsibility for how employees are treated in the workplace with her literal name on it, and also sought to reassure viewers that her public and private personas are one and the same."As you may have heard this summer, there were allegations of a toxic work environment at our show," she told her virtual studio audience.
She continued:"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. I get mad. I get anxious. I get frustrated. I get impatient. And I am working on all of that. I am a work in progress and I'm especially working on the impatience thing because, and it's not going well because it's not happening fast enough. I am a talk show host and you know that. But maybe some of you know I was an actress.
A slate of celebrity guests for this season has already been announced, but Dakota Johnson's name is mysteriously missing. Tiffany Haddish will kick things off, followed by the likes of Kristen Bell, Alex Baldwin and Chris Rock.
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