Ellen DeGeneres’s complicated legacy: Part one
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Ellen's Story Takes a Pretty Awkward Turn
Ellen revealed that when she was around 15 or 16, she was actually sexually abused by roy ye. Allen sadly didn't tell her mum what happened until a few years later. Her mother had been diagnosed with bress cancer,. and her stepfather, roy, apparently told ellen that he needed to feel her breasts for lumps too. He tried to do this on a couple of occasions, and at one point, Ellen said that he actually tried to break down her door. She kicked the window out and ran. When she did tell her mum about this incident, or multiple incidents, actually, her mum didn't believe her and stayed married to him for 18 more years.
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