Ellen DeGeneres opened up about sexual assault by her step father. She said in an interview “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction” that the abuse took place when she was just a teen.
She said “It a really horrible, horrible story and the only reason I’m actually going to go into details about it is because I want other girls to not ever let someone do that,”
Explaining her story she said that her stepfather, began to abuse her when her mother was out of town, he made her move telling DeGeneres that he needed to feel her breasts to make sure she had no lumps .
“He told me... 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.”
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“Again, because I didn’t know about bodies. I don’t know that breasts are all different.”
“Any way, 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 tries to break my door down and kicked the window out and ran ‘cause I knew it was going to go more to something.”
According her she did not report the abuse to her mother in the initial because she was afraid it would ruin their happiness. She then said “I should never have protected her, I should have protected myself, and I didn’t tell her for a few years and then I told her, and then she didn’t believe me and then she stayed with him for 18 more years,” speaking about the abuse will inspire other women to come forward.
“That the only reason I think it important to talk about it, because there so many young girls and it doesn’t matter how old you are.”
“When I see people speaking out, especially now, it angers me when victims aren’t believed, because we just don’t make stuff up. And I like men, but there are so many men that get away with so much.”
She first spoke about abuse in 2005 in an interview with Allure. And she recounts the same in the Netflix show which will be aired on this Friday.