Stars Open Up About Mental Health: A Reminder that Celebrities are Human

Ellen DeGeneres: It Took a Long Time to Be Accepted

Ellen DeGeneres, now one of America’s most beloved TV personalities, is openly gay, but it took a long time for her to be accepted for it. She was quoted saying: “When I walked out of the studio after five years of working so hard, knowing I had been treated so disrespectfully for no other reason than I was gay, I just went into this deep, deep depression.”

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“It’s so corny but it’s true. You have no idea where the darkest times of your life might end, so you have to just keep going,” she explained. And that’s exactly the message to be taken from her revelation.

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