Ellen DeGeneres says ending her show after 19 seasons is 'the right thing to do'

The Ellen DeGeneres show is coming to an end after 19 successful seasons.

The decision has come after Ellen, the show host, was caught up in a workplace misconduct scandal. Speaking to Oprah Winfrey during Thursday's episode of the show, the 63-year-old comedian said that the decision was taken considering a lot of important factors.

"I feel like it's the right thing to do, but I'm charged. It's a weird thing to announce that I'm stopping," she added.

Oprah, who herself ended her hit show in 2011 told Ellen that she can understand what the host is going through.

"I know what those feelings are. I also know the feelings leading up to it," she said. "So hearing you say and announcing to the world that it was your instinct and that you thought long and hard about it because anybody would know that for something that is as powerful as this show is in other people's lives, that you would not take that lightly and that the coming to the realization that now it is time is a process."

Despite the show ending, Ellen is hopeful for her career and feels that there are a lot of creative spaces she has yet to figure out.

"There's just different things as a creative person that I feel like I need to do," DeGeneres said. "We still have the digital Ellen Tube, Ellen Tube is huge. We have original shows, that's going to continue. Our social media's going to continue. I still am going to be very much involved with digital."