Ellen DeGeneres Is Getting Backlash For Comparing Her Mansion To Jail

Ever since the coronavirus forced people to stay at home and practice social distancing, The Ellen Show host has managed to rub fans the wrong way...

Fans found this extremely tone-deaf, especially when compared to the suffering that's going on around the world due to the coronavirus.

Ellen has little financial worry, while millions of people are wondering how they will pay their rent or feed their families.

Not even her positive conversation with Michelle Obama could get some people back on her side...

In a now-deleted tweet, Ellen posted a video of her broadcasting The Ellen Show from her home.

This puts her in good company with other talk show hosts who are doing the same, such as Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon.

Ellen began her at-home monologue as positive as ever by explaining that she misses working and wants to support her staff and crew.

"I’m thinking of you and sending love to you all. There’s no better way for me to do that than from my show," she captioned the clip.

"This is like being in jail, is what it is," she said, referring to being in isolation for the past three weeks.

"It's mostly because I've been wearing the same clothes for ten days and everyone in here is gay."

Thing is, no one was really laughing...

This is due to the fact that there are rising concerns over the coronavirus spreading within jails across the country.

A top doctor at Rikers Island said that what's happening is a “public health disaster unfolding before our eyes."

So, yeah, not so funny...

"You have any [expletive] idea how many human beings are locked in cells, sick, dying, terrified they’ll be next, because they couldn’t come up with a thousand dollars for bail, because they missed a court date, because they’re addicts, because we lock people in cells @TheEllenShow," another angrily added.

The backlash is similar to what Arnold Schwarzenegger faced when preaching about staying at home while sitting in his hot tub and smoking a cigar...

Just a few weeks ago, comedian Kevin T. Porter invited people to share “the most insane stories you’ve heard about Ellen being mean” on a thread on Twitter...

Writer and comedian Benjamin Siemon wrote that she was a nightmare to work with:

"A new staff member was told "every day she picks someone different to really hate. It's not your fault, just suck it up for the day and she'll be mean to someone else the next day. They didn't believe it but it ended up being entirely true."

So far, she's yet to respond to the gay joke that she made (or any of the other backlash), so it's hard to say if fans will hear from her.