Ellen DeGeneres is facing a negligence lawsuit after being accused of causing a car collision in California last year.
According to court documents filed in Santa Barbara County, a woman alleges that on Oct. 16, 2023, DeGeneres, 67, failed to stop at a stop sign and “t-boned” her vehicle at a four-way intersection.
The plaintiff claims she had come to a complete stop, checked for oncoming traffic, and proceeded through the intersection when DeGeneres “suddenly and without any warning” struck her car. She says the crash left her with “multiple serious personal injuries,” medical expenses, lost wages, and emotional distress. She is seeking unspecified damages.
DeGeneres’s attorney did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The former talk show host ended her long-running daytime program in 2022 following workplace misconduct allegations and later embarked on a final U.S. comedy tour. That same year, she and her wife, Portia de Rossi, purchased a home in England’s Cotswolds. The couple made the move permanent in late 2024, a decision DeGeneres recently said was influenced by Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
“We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis,” she said in July. “I was like, ‘He got in.’ And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here.’”
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