Ellen DeGeneres says she was sexually assaulted so "other girls never let anyone do that to them"
GAYLES.TV.- The presenter Ellen DeGeneres counted in the talk show of Netflix They do not need presentation, conducted by David Letterman, that her stepfather touched her breasts with the excuse that she had noticed a lump, just after her mother had had a mastectomy.
«He told me that he noticed a lump on his other breast and that he needed to feel mine. Since I didn't know anything about bodies, I didn't know that my chest was different and ... in any case, he convinced me that I needed to touch it and then he tried again and again (...) He tried to break my door down. I kicked the window and ran out, because I knew that it was going to get worse ... And I didn't want to tell my mother, I wanted to protect her, because I knew that it was going to ruin her happiness"He explained Ellen DeGeneres.
The actress and comedian wanted to break her silence 46 years later in order to raise awareness and serve as an example for every young woman who might go through something similar:It's a really horrible story and the only reason I'm actually going to go into detail about it is because I want other girls to never let someone do that to them.«.
"I should never have protected her. I should have protected myself. I didn't tell him for a few years and then I told him (…) I really didn't let it affect me. Until recently, I said to myself: 'I wish they had taken better care of me. I wish she had believed me"Admits DeGeneres, whose full testimony will be released Friday on David Letterman's Netflix talk show.
Source: Pink News, La Vanguardia
Photographer: Evan Agostini / Getty Images, Netflix
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