Chelsea Handler has had it with Justin Bieber and the Kardashians. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Mail, the comedienne reveals the reasons behind her departure from the E! network.
"To be quite honest I don't really care about Justin Bieber and I don't want to talk about him anymore. In order to make that happen I had to just stop doing my show. Straight away," she told the site.
We told you that Handler would end her show "Chelsea Lately" in August, four months before her contract ends.
"I myself am more surprised than anyone that I was able to hold down a job for seven years, and it was a fantastic seven years," she said. "I will always look back at my time on E! as most people look back at their time in college. I'm glad I went.​"
"We are very proud of Chelsea Lately's long-running success and the unique space that the series carved out in late night television," E! president Suzanne Kolb echoed. "Chelsea brought a distinct voice to late night with her acerbic wit and fearless commentary and we look forward to providing fans with a memorable send-off that lives up to that tradition."
There have been rumors of the star replacing Craig Ferguson, or signing a deal with Netflix. She denied those claims.
"I've had seven years of being on the show but I was just kinda over it and tired and I have a really proper new exciting project which will be announced in the next two weeks which I'm super happy about," Handler explained. "I'm excited more than anything about that."
"I'm not doing CBS Late Late. Anything being rumoured is not what I'm doing. I'm going to do a show. It will be a refresh situation, a little bit more mindful and a little bit more interesting for me and my viewers," she added.
Handler concluded by explaining she simply could not feed into the culture anymore, and the only way was to remove herself from the situation.
"I think if you participate in the celebrity world then you don't really have a choice but to be involved in the drama," the comedienne stated.
"You end up getting so into the mix that it changes the topics of the day. You can sit around and complain about all that s**t and the Kardashians all day but if you're participating in it then what can you do? It really didn't feel great doing the show and the only way to sort things out was to extricate myself from the entire situation."
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