29 Things You Didn’t Know About Ellen DeGeneres

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She Was Sexually Abused

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Back when Ellen was younger, her parents chose to divorce and she went to live with her mom, Betty, who eventually ended up getting married once more. Unfortunately for Betty, she got breast cancer and would have to spend a lot of time in the hospital for treatment. In a horrible turn of events, her stepfather chose those moments to molest Ellen. He began by telling her that he needed to check Ellen’s breasts to make sure that she didn’t have any lumps either, and then things escalated from there. The TV show host talked about it in an interview, saying, “I was 15 years old. I’m not even going into the details — it doesn’t matter — but we are really vulnerable at that age, and we trust. And then when you are violated, you don’t know what to do and you don’t want to say anything because first of all, you just start wondering, ‘How did this happen, how was I that stupid?’ All of these things you think you could have controlled and you can’t.”