“I said to her, ‘I’m gonna go in and ask for this much. Are you cool with that?’” Ellen explained. “Just because I don’t wanna be disrespectful to her, I don’t wanna come off crazy, and I wanna let her know what moves I’m making, because I do respect her. I am grateful to her. And she was like, ‘Yeah, no one’s gonna give it to you, you have to ask for it.’”
E! News reached out to ABC for comment but has not heard back.
After completing her quest for better pay, Ellen now sees her experience as a tool she can leverage to help other women.
“Once you get to a certain level, you can advocate for other women on your platform or in your workplace,” she shared. “If you know that you are getting this much and all the other women are well beneath you, you can’t just be OK with that. You really do have a responsibility to look and see what everybody else is making and use your power to say, ‘Listen, I appreciate what I got. But I really think that all the women deserve a bump.’”
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