Ellen DeGeneres accused of ignoring cease signal and T-boning automobile in new lawsuit

Former speak present host Ellen DeGeneres has been accused of T-boning a Tesla after working a cease signal.

The 67-year-old has reportedly been slapped with a lawsuit which claims she brought about the automobile crash in Santa Barbara County, California, in October 2023.

The girl waging the authorized grievance for negligence has alleged that DeGeneres ignored a site visitors signal, blew via an intersection and smashed into her side-on.

Court docket paperwork obtained by a number of shops together with Web page Six state that the unnamed driver had been making her manner in the direction of a junction within the highway moments earlier than the collision.

The lawsuit notes that the motorist had noticed a number of cease indicators, so paused and checked for oncoming site visitors earlier than continuing on her journey.

However whereas driving via the intersection, the lady claims that DeGeneres’ automobile immediately rammed into her Tesla.

She alleges that the retired comic did not take heed of the cease indicators, resulting in the crash which noticed her undergo an unspecified harm.

DeGeneres is being sued for negligence in consequence, whereas the lady is looking for damages. It’s at present unclear how a lot.

LADbible has contacted the star’s representatives for remark.

The alleged incident is alleged to have taken place previous to DeGeneres’ transfer throughout the pond with spouse Portia de Rossi, 52.

The couple upped sticks and headed to the UK final 12 months, whereas since saying they’ve settled right into a ‘less complicated’ life since making the Cotswolds their new house.

In line with DeGeneres, the more and more contentious political local weather within the States and Donald Trump’s return to the White House had been big components of their resolution to make the transfer.

“We obtained [to the UK] the day earlier than the election and woke as much as plenty of texts from our pals with crying emojis, and I used to be like, ‘He obtained in’,” she beforehand defined. “And we’re like, ‘We’re staying right here.'”

Talking of her adoration for the nation she now calls house, DeGeneres mentioned: “It is clear. All the pieces right here is simply higher – the way in which animals are handled, persons are well mannered. I simply find it irresistible right here.”

DeGeneres’ time on TV got here to an abrupt finish in 2022, because the Ellen DeGeneres Present was cancelled after practically 20 years, following allegations that the present harboured a poisonous office tradition.

Whereas on stage performing Ellen’s Final Stand…Up Tour final 12 months, she addressed the controversy and mentioned it was not the way in which she imagined her profession winding up.

“Oh yeah, I obtained kicked out of present enterprise,” she advised followers on the Coronet Theatre in West Hollywood, as per Rolling Stone.

“There’s no imply folks in present enterprise…I grew to become this one-dimensional character who gave stuff away and danced up steps. Are you aware how onerous it’s to bop up steps?

“Would a imply particular person dance up steps? Had I ended my present by saying, ‘Go f**okay your self,’ folks would’ve been pleasantly stunned.”

Discussing how she grew to become one thing of a pariah in Hollywood, DeGeneres added: “It was so hurtful. I couldn’t achieve perspective. I couldn’t do something to make myself perceive that it wasn’t private.

“I simply thought, ‘Nicely this isn’t the way in which I wished to finish my profession, however that is the way in which it’s ending’. I simply hated the way in which the present ended. I really like that present a lot and I simply hated that the final time folks would see me is that manner.”