Greyson Chance Calls Ellen DeGeneres ‘Manipulative’ 13 Years After She Helped Him Go Viral

Greyson Chance‘s beingness changed successful 2010 aft his show of Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” astatine a schoolhouse euphony festival went viral erstwhile helium was conscionable 12 years old. As galore whitethorn recall, helium was invited onto The Ellen DeGeneres Show to sermon his newfound fame, aft which Ellen, present 64, talented him a caller soft and created a grounds statement conscionable truthful she could motorboat his promising euphony career. The pre-teen seemed to person it each and was dubbed the “next Justin Bieber” by his admirers. However, Greyson is present opening up astir the less-than-glamorous clip successful his beingness and his narration with Ellen, who helium described arsenic a “manipulative” “self-centered”, and “blatantly opportunistic” individual.

In an interrogation published by Rolling Stone connected Sept. 22, Greyson, 25, claimed that arsenic soon arsenic helium signed with Ellen, she became an overbearing “hidden eye” successful his life. “My full week, my full month, my full twelvemonth could alteration [with] 1 substance connection from her,” helium recalled. He claimed she would cancel performances if they were not up to her standards and adjacent got picky with his clothes. “She would travel successful and look astatine a rack, outcry astatine stylists, berate radical successful beforehand of maine and say, ‘This is what you’re wearing connected the show,’” helium noted. “She was conscionable degrading to people.”

Greyson Chance has revealed what is was similar moving with Ellen DeGeneres erstwhile helium was a teen (Photo: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

In different illustration of Ellen’s alleged controlling tendencies, helium claimed she got upset with him and his parent erstwhile helium did not instantly ticker Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never movie arsenic a mode to survey however to beryllium a palmy touring artist. “I’ll ne'er hide this,” helium noted earlier helium told the communicative of a telephone speech helium perceive successful connected betwixt Ellen and his mother. “I conscionable retrieve proceeding connected the different broadside of the phone, conscionable yelling [and] beratement: ‘What benignant of parent are you? Do you recognize that I went retired of my mode to get this for you, and helium can’t beryllium down and ticker it?’”

However, Greyson alleged Ellen’s demeanor changed erstwhile his sophomore album, Truth Be Told, Part 1, underperformed. He claimed the arguable tv big instantly dropped him and made him consciousness “completely abandoned”. He claimed, “I couldn’t get a clasp of her. Couldn’t speech to her. Whenever I would travel connected the show, it was specified a fake smile. She wouldn’t adjacent ask, ‘How are you doing? How are you holding up?’ It was conscionable like, ‘Here’s what we’re going to speech about. We’ll spot you connected there.’”

Greyson Chance’s past quality connected ‘Ellen’ came successful 2019 (Photo: Courtesy of YouTube)

Greyson said the last straw for him was erstwhile helium appeared connected Ellen’s speech amusement successful 2019 aft helium returned to euphony pursuing a hiatus to be college. He came retired arsenic cheery 2 years prior, and Ellen told him however “beautiful” his communicative was. “She had thing to bash with that,” helium slammed. “[When I came out,] I hadn’t spoken to her successful years… That’s truthful messed up, that you’re present showing the satellite arsenic if we’re truthful tight. We’re truthful good. And down the scenes, you are this insanely manipulative person.”

He aboriginal claimed helium was offered a spot not erstwhile but doubly connected The Ellen DeGeneres Show after his 2019 interview, 1 of those times being during the show’s last 2 weeks, erstwhile viewership would beryllium high. “I couldn’t bash that,” helium confessed. “So I turned down a national-TV gig connected the eve of an medium release, which is astir apt not a astute happening to do, but I had to bash it for my integrity.”

Greyson, who made his movie debut earlier this year, released his album, Palladium, connected Thursday. In summation to celebrating the release, Greyson took to Instagram to explicate wherefore helium decided to travel guardant astir Ellen 2 years aft she was nether occurrence for allegedly mistreating radical connected set and creating a toxic enactment environment. “I’ve been wanting to archer this communicative for a agelong time, and was repeatedly told not to. Writing this medium forced maine to look dormant successful the eyes of my past, and reconcile with everything I went done arsenic a kid,” helium wrote. “I consciousness a tremendous value disconnected of my shoulders present that the information is out.”

HollywoodLife reached retired to Ellen’s squad for a remark connected Greyson’s accusations and has not yet heard back.