This image was posted on Facebook by ellentv
Highlights
- Ellen came out as a lesbian in an interview in 1997
- She was the 'punch line of a lot of cruel jokes'
- 'I was at rock bottom and out of money,' said Ellen
hit rock bottom after she was made fun of for coming out as gay.
Ellen, 58, was the "punch line of a lot of cruel jokes" when she came out but is feeling more positive about life now, reports
femalefirst.co.uk."I was the punch line of lots of jokes. I laughed at some, but I realised there's somebody on the other side of them. It's cruel. I've never liked mean comedy, but that became even more important to me after I was the brunt of it,"
Ellen told OUT magazine.
"If this isn't an example of 'it gets better', I don't know what is. Time is a strange thing. I was at rock bottom and out of money, with no work in sight, but one step at a time, it gets better. It gets much better than better," she added.
Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian in an interview with Time magazine in 1997.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)