Ellen DeGeneres is giving back to those who are choosing kindness during the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday's at-home episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she chatted with Mario Salerno, a Brooklyn landlord who told his 200 tenants they no longer owe rent for the month of April due to the pandemic, and gave him the surprise of a lifetime. "I did that not only for humanity, but these tenants of mine are like my family and they were struggling," Salerno told the daytime host. "They were going through tough times.
And to me, it wasn't part of the money because that's irrelevant to a human life and I had tenants come to me crying telling me they couldn't afford not even to put a meal on their table." "So, I thought it over after the first and.