Ellen DeGeneres talked about some very personal and some horrifying things from her past during her recent interviews with David Letterman, on his show on Netflix, My Guest Needs No Introduction.
She opened up about a lot of matters in the interview, as she talked about the ups and downs of her career and about her wife Portia de Rossi.
Ellen also revealed on her show that she had been sexually abused when she was a teenager and the accused was her stepfather, She told the cameras about her story and the reason for sharing it after all these years.
She stated that "I'm angry at myself because I was too weak to stand up—I was 15 or 1," she revealed. "I mean, it's a really horrible, horrible story and the only reason I'm actually gonna go into detail about it is because I want other girls to not, you know, ever let someone do that."
She went on to tell that, all of that had started after her mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had to get one of her breasts removed for that. That is when her father approached her and asked to feel her breast as he had felt a lump in her mother's breast but he didn't want to piss her mother off and then he demanded to do it again and again.
"They had a very, very sexual relationship, which was also very uncomfortable for me," DeGeneres said. "And he told me when she was out of town that he'd felt a lump in her breast and needed to feel my breasts because he didn't want to upset her, but he needed to feel mine. Again, 'cause I didn't know about bodies, I don't know that breasts are all different. Anyway, he convinced me that he needs to feel my breasts and then he tries to do it again another time, and then another time, he tried to break my door down, and I kicked the window out and ran 'cause I knew it was gonna do–it was gonna go more to something."
Ellen also told that she at that time she felt like she didn't have a voice back then and that is how the majority of women feel about this. But she feels that now women have a voice and they have power as it is the time for women now.
