Chelsea Handler didn’t sleep her way to the top

Chelsea Handler says that she worked hard to get where she is.

They say it’s not what you know, it’s who you know, but Chelsea insists she got her break because she deserved it and not because she was dating then-Comcast executive Ted Harbert, who supervised the E! Network.

“Ted Harbert is not responsible for me selling four books on the New York Times list,” Handler told America’s More magazine.

“He’s not responsible for me selling out arenas. All he did was recognize talent. He put Roseanne Barr on the air. He put Brett Butler on the air. This is a guy who notices female comedians, and he noticed me. You don’t get a TV show because you’re sleeping with someone. That’s when you get a walk-on role as, like, a female police officer.”