Ellen DeGeneres talks about her sexual assault as a teenager on David Letterman's show

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Celebrity- Ellen DeGeneres, talk show host and comedian, is open about badual badault in adolescence. Speak to David Letterman on Netflix's broadcast of the latter, My next guest does not need introduction 61 years old A celebrity and gay rights champion has revealed how her mother, her husband of that time, Betty, had badually badaulted her when she was only 15 or 16 years old. The episode of DeGeneres was broadcast on Friday.

Recounting her ordeal, she told Letterman her father (4) via cnn.com), "He told me, when (my mother) was out of town, that he had felt a lump in his chest and needed to feel my bads.Whatever it was, he convinced me that he needed to feel my bads then he was trying to do it again once more, then another time. "

With his revelation, DeGeneres hopes to empower other women and girls and push them to show courage. "I'm angry at myself because, you know, I did not do it, I was too weak to defend myself, I was 15 or 16. It's a really horrible, horrible story. the only reason I will really go into the details is because I want other girls to never leave someone to do that, she says. "
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DeGeneres then added, "I should never have protected (my mother), I should have protected myself, and I did not tell her anything for a few years, and then I told her … And then she did not believe me, and then she stayed with him for another 18 years and finally left him because he had changed the story so much. "
Earlier in 2005, DeGeneres had revealed that she had been badaulted by her mother's third husband when she was a teenager with Allure magazine. However, she did not specify the duration of the violence.

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