"That's one of the worst decisions I've made," DeGeneres, 57, told Stern, 61, of joining Idol for its ninth season in 2010
"You know what it is?" Stern replied. "And I found this too, when I started doing America's Got Talent. You think it's going to be easy to tell someone honestly what you think."
Turns out, it's not — especially when what you think isn't
complimentary. 
"When you're looking at them in the face — and some of
these people have stories that are really sad, or they've been
struggling a long time — you do feel like, 'Jesus Christ, I don't know
that I feel comfortable telling this person,'" the shock jock explained.
"That's the hard part."
"As a fan of the shows, it doesn't matter that I sing or that I know
anything about pitch or anything," she told Stern and his longtime
co-host
Robin Quivers. "I'm like everybody else at home. It's
American Idol.
And you're watching and you're a fan. So I thought, I'm gonna represent
those people at home that have opinions. But then I just thought, like
Howard says, I can't break this person's heart. I mean, let somebody
else do that."
"That was the worst experience of my life," she said at the time. "I'm
not going to get into what it was, but let's just say I don't think they
had any intentions for us to have a good experience doing that show."
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