Viral Singer Greyson Chance Says Ellen DeGeneres Is 'Manipulative,' 'Self-Centered' & 'Blatantly Opportunistic'

After the May 2010 interview, she gifted the singer $10,000 and a new piano, and co-created eleveneleven, a record label distributed by Interscope Geffen A&M Records, and signed him as her first act. She also got him managers Troy Carter and Guy Oseary, a booking agent, publicist and brand agent. He released a mini EP in October, then began touring.

According to Greyson, she became “really invested” in the singer, but also “became domineering and way too controlling.”

“My whole week, my whole month, my whole year could change [with] one text message from her. That was horrible…if she had an opinion of any sort, the whole thing changed,” he explained.

At one point, when he didn’t immediately watch Justin Bieber‘s Never Say Never documentary as she wished, Ellen called his mother.

“I’ll never forget this. I just remember hearing on the other side of the phone, just yelling [and] beratement: ‘What type of mother are you? Do you realize that I went out of my way to get this for you, and he can’t sit down and watch it?’”

Greyson‘s mother Lisa says there were several times that Ellen “would go through his clothes” and be “a little controlling” about what he wore, saying he was never allowed to wear leather, due to her commitment to veganism.

“She would come in and look at a rack, yell at stylists, berate people in front of me and say, ‘This is what you’re wearing on the show.’ She was just degrading to people.”

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