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Charlie Puthis sharing what he says was his experience atEllen DeGeneres' eleveneleven label.
The Grammy Award nominee, 30, said he “didn’t hear from anybody” at the now-defunct label after recording his first EP, as he reflected on the early years of his career during theRolling Stone Music Nowpodcast, followingGreyson Chance’s allegedsimilar experience.
“We both have different experiences, me versus Greyson,” Puth explained. “But I do agree with him that nobody was really present, certainly after the creation of my first demo EP. I didn’t really hear from anybody after that. Not putting any blame just on one person, but from a collective, all the people that were in that room, they just disappeared.”
PEOPLE has reached out to DeGeneres' rep for comment.
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Puth admitted that he’s not upset about those early songs remaining unreleased, as he was still pretty green. “I never heard those songs again, but I don’t know how good they are,” he said.
And although theCharlieartist had a similar experience as Chance, 25, with the label, he said he got along just fine with DeGeneres: “People describe Ellen as rude. I’ve never experienced that. Maybe she likes me.”
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“I’ve never met someone more manipulative, more self-centered and more blatantly opportunistic than her,” Chance said.
A source close to theEllen DeGeneresShowteam previously told PEOPLE they “went above and beyond to help set him up for success, but in business that doesn’t always work out, and his career did not take off.”
ThePalladiumartist, who signed after going viral with his cover ofLady Gaga’s “Paparazzi,” later admitted in a TikTok that he’s still “grateful for her giving me a start.”
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“But I’m more grateful for myself for the moments when I got dropped and everything went awry when I was a kid,” he explained. “I’m thankful to 15-year-old me, who picked up the pieces and kept on going and kept on fighting.”
source: people.com
