‘My stepfather sexually assaulted me at the age of 15’ – Ellen DeGeneres

Multi-award winning TV host Ellen DeGeneres has just revealed that she was sexually assaulted by her mother’s husband when she was a teenager.

Ellen made this known in an upcoming interview on David Letterman‘s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.

According to Entertainment Tonight, DeGeneres explained that the assault happened when her mum had just been diagnosed with breast cancer and had one of her breasts removed.

“He told me when she was out of town that 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,” she tells Letterman.

“I’m angry at myself because, you know, I didn’t — I was too weak to stand up to — I was 15 or 16,” she continues. “It’s a really horrible, horrible story and the only reason I’m actually going to go into detail about it is because I want other girls to not ever let someone do that.”

“We [women] just don’t feel like we’re worthy, or we’re scared to have a voice, and we’re scared to say no,” she says. “That’s the only reason I think it’s important to talk about it because there’s 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.”

“It is just time for us to have a voice,” she adds. “It’s time for us to have power.”

The  61-year-old  first made this known in an interview with Allure back in 2005, revealing that  her stepfather told her: “He thinks he feels a lump in (my mother’s) other breast, but he doesn’t want to alarm her so he needs to feel mine to make sure.”

DeGeneres, who did not mention who it was then told Allure the man had since died, said he “made me lie down because he said he felt her  breast while she was lying down.”

 

“I had to kick a window out and escape and sleep in a hospital all night long,” she recalled.

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