Ellen DeGeneres has been through everything, it seems. And the entertainer and trail blazer has made a point of being powerfully honest about who she is — it’s what has always endeared her to her fans, whatever the troubles and bumps fame and power have brought her.
The Howard Stern Show just posted a powerful reminder of what makes Ellen DeGeneres who she is, and how she thinks and musters the inner courage to do her thing. Here is DeGeneres, talking candidly about a dream where she’s a bird in a cage and about her “shame” — the shame attached to not being true publicly to who you are privately.
She tells Howard that she thought to herself: “no matter how pretty this cage is, I’m not going to live in it.”
“I felt like I was not free. I had so much shame attached to it,” she says. “You don’t realize how much shame there is because society makes you feel like… anytime you can’t say…” She goes on to explain about coming out: “no straight person says my private life is my own business, only people who are ashamed and have to hide something.”
Ellen’s groundbreaking reveal may have happened many years ago, but when she speaks about it, it’s as present as today. And fans know it. “Riveting,” writes one fan. Another gives Stern and Ellen equal credit, writing: “Thank you Ellen and Howard for and amazing interview. As a mom of a college student who came out his freshman year of high school to acceptance it’s in large part to an amazing, strong person like Ellen. Howard you are the best.”
And while Ellen’s revelations make strike some as old news, her message is always important and relevant and, as another fan writes, “still amazing.” It’s at the heart of what allows Ellen to keep having new beginnings, like the last premiere…
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