Ellen Degeneres
Ellen Degeneres, a big name in Hollywood has her very successful show on NBC and is a leader of the LGBTQ community, is no stranger to depression.
In an interview on the podcast Armchair Expert, created by Dax Shepard, Monica Padman and Rob Holysz, Degeneres relayed about her struggle with depression after she had come out as a lesbian.
She said, “Because there was so much talk about it, everyone was just sick of it. I had only done the cover of Time magazine, a primetime special with Diane Sawyer and Oprah … Even Elton John said, ‘Shut up already. We know you’re gay. Be funny.’ I had never met him and I thought, ‘What kind of support is that from a gay person?'”
While she had made a brave, stand up coming out, the reaction she felt from everyone put her under a lot of stress.
“Everybody assumed I was just nonstop talking about it,” she said. “It hurt my feelings. I was getting jokes made at my expense on every late-night show, people were making fun of me. I was really depressed. And because of that, and because my show was canceled, I was looked at as a failure in this business. No one would touch me. I had no agent, no possibility of a job, I had nothing," according to Hellogiggles.com.
She overcame the odds and has pretty much been elevated to a greater level after fighting through the toughest point in her life.
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