Ellen’s Fathers
Her mother, Elizabeth DeGeneres, remarried a salesman named Roy Gruessondorf just a few years after her divorce and moved Ellen down to Texas to live with him. Her brother, Vance, stayed with their father in Louisiana. During her high school years, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and thankfully won that battle. However, Ellen’s trauma didn’t stop there.
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Her stepfather tried to check her for lumps. “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.” This abuse escalated to a point where he broke into her bedroom, and she had to escape out of the window. This was when Ellen DeGeneres went from being (in her own words) a boring child to letting out her inner comedian to help deal with the trauma.