3 major revelations of Ellen DeGeneres' book with David Letterman

Ellen Degeneres opened on some very personal moments of his past during his interview with David Letterman on his Netflix issue My next guest does not need an introduction.

His interview with Letterman covered all types of topics, but a few really enlightened the world. Ellen host. The actress spoke to the former late-night host about her highs and lows in her career, his wife Portia De Rossi ("she is fantastic") and to accept her sexuality.

In anticipation of DeGeneres' full interview with Letterman, airing May 31, it's about three of the biggest revelations we've learned so far.

She was sexually assaulted by her stepfather while she was a teenager. At a point in their discussion, the Finding Dory The star recalled a "horrible, horrible story" and explained why she is talking about it all these years later.

"I'm mad at myself because I was too weak to get up, I was 15 or 1 years old," she revealed. "I mean, it's a really horrible and horrible story and the only reason I'll go into the details about it is because I want other girls to not do, you know, leave somebody behind." 39, do one that. "

This happened for the first time after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to have one of her breasts removed.

"They had a very, very sexual relationship, which was also very uncomfortable for me," DeGeneres said. "And he told me when she was in town that he had felt a lump in his chest and that he needed to feel my breasts because he did not want to upset her, but he needed to feel mine. "

She continued: "Again, because I did not know the bodies, I did not know that the breasts were all different.Anyway, he convinced me that he had to feel my breasts, then he was trying to do it again, And then another time, he tried to break my door and I threw the window out the window and I rushed because I knew it was going to go – that was going to do something else. "

DeGeneres explained that she did not want to tell her mother because "I was protecting her and I knew it would ruin her happiness."

The 61-year-old woman waited a few years to tell her mother and when she finally did, her mother "did not believe me." DeGeneres' mother and this man ended up staying together for another 18 years, which made DeGeneres feel "really angry".

"What most women do is that we do not feel we have a voice, and that's the only reason it's going to happen. is the first time I have spoken to someone other than my friends, as if we were worthy of it, or we were afraid to speak and we were afraid to say "no" She said.

DeGeneres told Letterman that the time had come for women "to have a voice" and "to have power".

She said, "It makes me angry when the victims are not believed because we are not doing anything wrong."

Her best friend kissed her in high school. DeGeneres spoke to Letterman about her relationship with the school and how she frequented the men, but she also had other secret talks with her best friend.

"I had boyfriends and I loved them," she told Letterman. But one day, "out of nowhere," her best friend professed her love to DeGeneres and told him that she wanted to kiss him.

DeGeneres said, "Once we kissed, we felt completely different from those with whom I was."

She shared that she "did not understand her" at first, when she pronounced the word "gay" out loud to describe herself. After being released in public, she stated that "no one wanted to hire her" and she said, "If you are different, stay calm."

It was similar to an anecdote that she recounted Ryan Seacrest in 2017.

"It was horrible because I had worked so hard to be honest and to overcome my shame to hide something that I knew was not wrong … It was a difficult balance, "she said. "What is more attractive than anything is honesty."

An astrologer gave him clues about a career revived later in life. According to DeGeneres, she went to Ojai after canceling her first show, where she met the animator Finding Dory. Shortly after, she met an astrologer who told her: "At 45, you will start a brand new job."

The astrologer told him that this "brand new job" would last 20 years and then make it "more famous" and help it "earn more money".

Spooky (or, coincidentally, whether you believe in astrology or not), Enough, DeGeneres was 45 when she started her talk show.

"I talk to him every year now," said DeGeneres. "She is always right.

DeGeneres herself even seems perplexed and fascinated by the alignment of the astrologer's claims to reality. She added, "I do not understand it, I believe our intention creates reality."

Maybe the astrologer was right again because DeGeneres recently announced that she had signed for another three years of her successful show, The Ellen DeGeneres show.

David Letterman's show My next guest does not need an introduction also includes interviews with Kanye West, Tiffany Haddish and Lewis Hamilton and Melinda Gates. He debuted on Netflix on May 31st.