Caitlyn Jenner’s feud with Ellen DeGeneres got so bad that the former Olympian once considered asking her famous Kardashian family to never go on the daytime host’s show again.
“I thought, ‘Maybe I should call Kris [Jenner] and say, ‘Kris, why don’t you just ban any of the kids being on “Ellen,”‘ but I didn’t,” the 72-year-old revealed in a deleted scene from “Big Brother VIP Australia” earlier this month.
“I thought, ‘I don’t want to get involved in that. Let them do their thing,'” she added.
Caitlyn explained to her housemates that her issues with DeGeneres, 63, first started when she appeared as a guest on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2015 and was asked about her controversial views on gay marriage.
The “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” alum said she initially wanted to go on the talk show to help raise funds for a trans student who was a DeGeneres super-fan and needed money for nursing school.
“[DeGeneres] says to me, ‘The only way I’ll do it is if you’re on the show, too,'” Caitlyn claimed.
The gold medalist said she agreed to go on the show, and during a commercial break for the segment, DeGeneres brought up the topic of gay marriage.
“Like everybody, I think everybody has had a progression on gay marriage,'” Caitlyn said she thought to herself. “You know, 30, 40 years ago, I didn’t know the subject. Times change.”
When they returned on air, DeGeneres asked the question on-camera, and Caitlyn now admits that “looking back on it, I could have handled a couple of things a bit differently.”
At the time, the reality star said she had always been a “traditionalist” and that “if that word ‘marriage’ is really, really that important to you, then I can go with it.”
After the interview, DeGeneres went on Howard Stern’s radio show and said of Caitlyn, “She still has a judgment about gay marriage.”
Caitlyn told her “Big Brother” housemates that DeGeneres’ remarks “absolutely burnt my ass” and so she retaliated by getting “really tough on her” in the media.
The trans activist said she never received an apology from the comedian and she also kept inviting her daughter Kylie Jenner and other family members on her show because “my family gives her good ratings.”