A bombshell Ring video was leaked last week of influential conservative commentator Steven Crowder berating his wife, Hilary.
Within the footage from June 2021, he tells her to “f–king watch it” and accuses her of refusing “to do wifely things” while telling her he doesn’t love her.
On the time, she was eight months pregnant with their twins.
Her family released a press release saying she had been hiding his “mentally and emotionally abusive behavior” from her family and friends.
The pair, who married in 2012, have been locked in a contentious divorce since 2021.
Crowder claimed the disturbing footage, which was released on journalist Yasher Ali’s Substack, was “misleadingly edited.”
But quite a few former employees of the provocateur alleged these kinds of unhinged tirades were commonplace contained in the “Louder with Crowder” office.
“I’m not shocked, nevertheless it was pathetic what he did to Hilary,” a former worker told The Post. “That may not be the Steven you see on his show, but that was the true Steven.”
The Post spoke to 10 former employees who claim Crowder ran an “abusive” company, where he often screamed at his employees — including his own father — exposed his genitals, sent out directives to arbitrarily fire people and made underlings wash his dirty laundry.
The previous staffers worked for the show at different times, from its inception in 2016 through 2022.
The overwhelming majority had left the corporate voluntarily.
They requested anonymity because they either feared retaliation or had signed NDAs.
All said they felt compelled to talk out in regards to the media personality after the sickening footage was made public and his former co-host Dave Landau called him a “bully” in an interview last week.
“We don’t want Steven to suffer. We just want the abuse to stop or at the very least let future employees know what they’re getting themselves into,” said one former worker.
(The Post reached out to Crowder via his lawyer, in addition to “Louder with Crowder” CEO Gerald Morgan, multiple times in regards to the allegations brought forth by former employees, but didn’t receive a response.)
The 35-year-old American-Canadian right-wing content creator, who bills himself as a devout Christian, was a baby actor who began doing standup at 17.
In 2009, he became a Fox News contributor where he wrote essays in defense of abstinence, and in 2014, he began doing a weekly podcast broadcasted by a conservative radio station in Michigan and gained a bigger following.
In November 2016, Crowder moved to Texas, hired a small team and turned “Louder with Crowder” right into a full production arm, creating comedic sketches, a podcast and his popular “Change My Mind” videos.
Crowder, who currently has 1.3 million Instagram followers and 5.9 million on YouTube, became wildly influential inside conservative circles, who were dazzled by his brash contrarian takes, irreverent approach and crusades against big tech.
“People thought he was funny. And he may very well be, especially when you were watching from the surface,” said an early staffer.
But contained in the Dallas-based Crowder universe, many said he was “like a yo-yo.”
Charismatic and type at times, a “volatile” Crowder may be controlling and “able to working every angle of your emotions.”
With long hours, unrealistic expectations and emotional outbursts, he often burned through staffers — lots of whom were young, starry eyed fans who had never worked in traditional media and relocated to Texas for the chance to work with their hero.
And while the “Louder with Crowder” ethos was politically incorrect, his antics crossed the road.
He was known to reveal his genitals to staffers, many ex-employees told The Post.
Six sources said they witnessed such lewd behavior first-hand.
A former staffer recalled driving back from Illinois in a van after a school show in March 2018, when former producer Jared Monroe, whom Crowder dubbed “Not Gay Jared,” was targeted.
“Jared was asleep within the last row. Steven was in front and he was joking about what he was going to do,” the staffer recalled. “He climbed over and dropped his junk on top of Jared’s shoulder.”
That very same person also claimed Crowder exposed himself to Jared in 2017, while they were within the green-screen room filming a parody of “Ghost.” (When asked about each allegations, Monroe told The Post “no comment.”)
And, during a 2018 flight with six people from the corporate, one other former worker said they witnessed Crowder put his testicles on his assistant and childhood friend John Goodman, who shook off the incident. (Goodman, who stills works for Crowder, didn’t return The Post’s request for comment.)
A fourth ex worker said Crowder exposed himself to former co-host and comedian Dave Landau on the conference table with others present. (Landau didn’t reply to The Post’s request for comment.)
“It was childish. But then I discovered this was something he did. At first, I took it as him attempting to be friendly or considered one of the blokes. Now I see it was an influence play,” the witness said.
“In case your manager at Red Lobster did this, it could be national news.”
Quite a few sources noted these incidents weren’t a part of any sketches, lots of which may very well be bawdy and off-color.
But Crowder, sources said, is usually known for blurring the lines of professionalism.
Quite a few former employees said his production assistants wash laundry within the office, including Crowder’s personal dirty items.
Many describe Crowder not as a troublesome boss, but an “unreasonable micromanager” who would send out unrealistic assignments after hours and “set people up for failure.”
“It was like a cult where you were all in,” said one ex worker, adding that Crowder “didn’t want you having a life outside of it.”
In 2017, he commissioned his small team to create a 30-minute “A Christmas Carol” parody on top of their regular workload. Just a few ex-employees, none of whom were paid additional time, said they logged over 100 hours within the week leading as much as the discharge of the special and slept within the office, in keeping with multiple sources.
Within the midst of this project, Crowder sent a bunch text message telling them to sleep in and are available into the office a bit later at some point. One worker remarked, “sleep lol.”
Crowder shot back, “Be somewhat grateful buddy.”
The exchange, seen by The Post, angered the team, who turned it into an oft-repeated joke once they felt undervalued and overworked.
And when shows or projects fell wanting his expectations, Crowder piled the blame on his staffers. “We’d tell him things wouldn’t work,” said one ex-staffer, who recalls a large live show in 2018 not going as Crowder had planned.
“I believed, ‘Surely Steven, who micromanaged the entire thing, goes to take some responsibility here,’” they continued.
As a substitute Crowder put the onus on his staff. His assistant handed each worker a duplicate of Jocko Willink’s leadership and performance book, “Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win.”
“All of us thought we were going to get an apology but we got a book. It was like a sitcom,” the previous staffer cracked.
Back in late 2020, while on a tear, Crowder sent out a directive to arbitrarily “fire someone. Don’t care who,” read the Discord message, viewed by The Post. The source said Crowder often dropped threats to fireplace people into the corporate’s Discord chatroom.
His irrational outbursts even prolonged to his father Darrin, who works as his booker. Quite a few ex-staffers said he’d lash out at his dad in front of other employees. (Darrin, who still works together with his son, didn’t reply to The Post’s request for comment.)
“He did it repeatedly. And it was normally about failing to book someone he wanted on the show. Steven would say, ‘I’m presupposed to get stars’,” recalled one ex-staffer who said he was approached by two other underlings who said Crowder’s behavior towards his father made them feel “uncomfortable.”
Last week, Crowder’s ex- co-host Landau called his former boss a “bully” on an episode of the podcast “Your Welcome with Michael Malice.“
“Whatever he has, and whatever he’s going through, I feel he was bullied in some unspecified time in the future in his life,” Landau said, adding, “He’s change into the bully and he doesn’t understand it.”
Landau detailed how Crowder installed a ” ‘Dave don’t talk’ button” within the studio and at all times needed to get the last word.
But perhaps essentially the most bizarre incident got here after Crowder, who was scheduled to miss a show, signed off on comedian Matt McClowry to fill in with Landau.
When Crowder’s assistant later said no to McClowry’s appearance and Landau asked Crowder about it, the conservative personality unleashed on his co-host.
“He told me he owns me…It was venomous…I saw a distinct individual that I had heard rumors about,” Landau told Malice.
Even before his recent divorce drama, Crowder had raised eyebrows by going after fellow conservative media titans. In January, Crowder, whose contract with the Blaze was up, launched the “Stop Big Con” initiative, wherein he accused one other conservative outlet, later revealed to be Ben Shapiro’s the Each day Wire, of offering him a $50 million “slave contract.”
In March, he signed on free speech platform Rumble and in an interview with Megyn Kelly he said his crusade was “not about me…It’s in regards to the next creator.”
“All of us laughed when he said stuff like that. In case you were funny or talented, he squashed you,” said a source.
One former worker said they weren’t doing the sketches they desired to do, in order that they teamed up with Landau to create a sketch comedy pilot released last December.
“Steven freaked out and threatened to fireplace people over it. It was viewed it as a mutiny,” said the ex-employee. One other source noted it was made on their very own time with their very own equipment and didn’t use company resources.
“Dave was told, ‘That is your fault. We have now to fireplace them now.’” Eventually, the unique source said that Crowder backed down. In April, Landau announced he left the corporate and goes to the Blaze.
“That doesn’t appear to be someone who’s trying to accumulate content creators,” said the source.
Many blame this public unraveling on his habit of purging anyone who challenges him.
“These terrible ideas and moves have at all times been in his nature but over time he has surrounded himself with only yes men, and his family who works for him. They don’t tell him otherwise,” said an ex-staffer, adding, “There isn’t a one there to carry him to account.”
