Greyson Probability has come a good distance from being the 12-year-old boy who rocketed to fame after his viral Paparazzi cowl was shared on The Ellen DeGeneres Present in 2010.

In a latest interview with Rolling Stone, Probability, now 25, spoke about his former mentor DeGeneres for the primary time, claiming he has “by no means met somebody extra manipulative, extra self-centred, and extra blatantly opportunistic.”

Although Probability instructed the outlet DeGeneres performed a really key function in his early profession, he mentioned the speak present host later “fully deserted” him.

As of this writing, DeGeneres has not publicly responded to Probability’s claims. A consultant from The Ellen Present instructed People who DeGeneres and her workers “went above and past to assist set him up for achievement, however in enterprise that doesn’t at all times work out, and his profession didn’t take off.”

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Probability met DeGeneres after she requested him to look on The Ellen Present to debate the video of his cowl of Woman Gaga’s Paparazzi — a efficiency shakily recorded in Probability’s Oklahoma center college gymnasium when he was in Grade 6. The video has 71 million views.

Probability mentioned when he and his mom arrived at The Ellen Present, DeGeneres instructed Probability’s mother “You’re by no means going to must work once more a day in your life.”

He was the primary artist to signal to DeGeneres’ file label eleveneleven. Probability was arrange with high-profile expertise managers and a group of workers, together with a reserving agent, publicist and a model agent, all within the hopes he may change into the following Justin Bieber.

To Rolling Stone, Probability claimed DeGeneres was a “hidden eye” in his early profession, closely controlling the boy’s busy touring and press schedules, clothes and actions.

He alleged DeGeneres shouted at each he and his mom over the cellphone when he didn’t watch a prescreening of Bieber’s then-upcoming tour documentary By no means Say By no means. Probability mentioned when he — on the time, a minor who was working 14 to 16 hour days — didn’t discover the time to look at the documentary, DeGeneres aggressively scolded him over the cellphone.

“I’ll always remember this,” Probability instructed Rolling Stone. “I simply keep in mind listening to on the opposite aspect of the cellphone, simply yelling (and) beratement: ‘What kind of mom are you? Do you notice that I went out of my solution to get this for you, and he can’t sit down and watch it?’”

When Probability’s 2012 EP Fact Be Instructed, Half 1 underperformed, DeGeneres allegedly disappeared from his life fully, together with the group she’d curated for him on the file label.

Lisa Probability, Probability’s mom, instructed Rolling Stone she thinks DeGeneres is a “businesswoman” earlier than the rest.

“If one thing isn’t trending the way in which she needs it to, she’s going to place an finish to it as a result of it’s enterprise for her. It’s not heat and fuzzy,” Probability’s mom mentioned. “I don’t assume she invited individuals to be part of her life or take somebody beneath their wing like she did if she didn’t wish to see one thing come of it. If it wasn’t shifting quick sufficient for her, that’s when she began to close down or shut us out.”

Probability will not be the primary individual to accuse DeGeneres of unsavoury behaviour. A Buzzfeed exposé in 2020 alleged DeGeneres would berate workers and was liable for making a “poisonous work surroundings” within the TV studio. DeGeneres addressed the allegations in the course of the remaining season of The Ellen Present and apologized to “the individuals who had been affected.”

Probability appeared on The Ellen Present even after his falling out with DeGeneres (and a break from music) in 2019. Throughout the TV program, she congratulated the younger singer on popping out as homosexual. Probability mentioned after years of non-contact, the congratulations felt “low cost.”

Probability claimed he was requested a number of occasions to return to The Ellen Present in its remaining season, although he declined all invites for his “integrity.”

On Twitter, Probability shared a hyperlink to the Rolling Stone article (which he mentioned is the one time he’ll converse publicly about DeGeneres). He claimed his new album, Palladium, “compelled me to look useless within the eyes of my previous, and reconcile with what I went by means of as a child.”

“The primary a part of my profession, I owe a variety of due to her and to that group. However the motive why I’m right here at the moment speaking about an album, I owe f—ing nothing to her,” Probability instructed Rolling Stone. “As a result of I used to be the one which needed to pull myself up. She was nowhere to be discovered.”