- Charlie Puth claimed everyone at Ellen DeGeneres' record label "disappeared" after his first EP.
- The singer discussed his time with the eleveneleven label on the "Rolling Stone Music Now" podcast.
Grammy award-winning singer Charlie Puth recently explained that he felt like everyone "disappeared" on him at Ellen DeGeneres' music label, eleveneleven.
The star appeared on the $4 podcast when he recalled his time working with the talk show host's now-defunct company.
DeGeneres discovered Puth and Emily Luther back in October 2011 after she'd seen their version of Adele's "Someone Like You" on their popular YouTube channel, where they uploaded acoustic covers. But Puth says that the label disappeared after he worked on his first EP, agreeing with $4
Puth said: "We both have different experiences, me versus Greyson. But I do agree with him that nobody was really present, certainly after the creation of my first demo EP."
Puth added that he doesn't blame anyone in particular, saying: "I didn't really hear from anybody after that. Not putting any blame just on one person, but from a collective, all the people that were in that room, they just disappeared."
The "See You Again" singer also said that he's not sure how good his early work was. "I never heard those songs again, but I don't know how good they are," he explained.
Singer Greyson Chance previously told $4 that he felt "completely abandoned" by DeGeneres after his success started to dwindle, and she stopped taking his calls. He also claimed that she yelled at him and called her an "insanely manipulative person."
But Puth said that he didn't have any negative interactions with the host, adding: "People describe Ellen as rude. I've never experienced that. Maybe she likes me."
This isn't the first time DeGeneres $4 with hostility, with a number of former employees recalling stories about working in a toxic environment on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" when a comedian asked for anecdotes about her online.
In 2020, Dutch YouTuber NikkieTutorials told "De Wereld Draait Door" that $4 towards her when she appeared on the show.
This led to several stars, including Mariah Carey, Lea Thompson, and Brad Garrett, $4. While others like Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Hart, and Katy Perry, defended DeGeneres.