BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Source:Deadline.com
Both Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi have moved permanently to the United Kingdom, citing the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.
According to deadline, there was a conversation with broadcaster Richard Bacon at Cheltenham's Everyman Theatre before she started her British tour.
via Deadline:
“We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in.’ And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here,'” she explained.
DeGeneres continued of the decision, “It’s clean. Everything here is just better — the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here.”
“The Baptist Church in America is trying to reverse gay marriage,” DeGeneres said. “They’re trying to literally stop it from happening in the future and possibly reverse it. Portia and I are already looking into it, and if they do that, we’re going to get married here.”
She added later, “I wish we were at a place where it was not scary for people to be who they are. I wish that we lived in a society where everybody could accept other people and their differences. So until we’re there, I think there’s a hard place to say we have huge progress.”
“No matter what, any article that came up, it was like, ‘She’s mean’, and it’s like, how do I deal with this without sounding like a victim or ‘poor me’ or complaining? But I wanted to address it,” she explained. “It’s as simple as, I’m a direct person, and I’m very blunt, and I guess sometimes that means that … I’m mean?”
She added that it was “kind of crazy” that saying someone is mean “can be the worst thing that you say about a woman”: “How dare us have any kind of mood, or you can’t be anything other than nice and sweet and kind and submissive and complacent,” she stated.
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| Ellen and Portia de Rossi wed in 2008 after gay marriage became legal in California |
DeGeneres concluded that it was “certainly an unpleasant way to end” her show, though “I don’t think I can say anything that’s ever going to get rid of that [reputation] or dispel it, which is hurtful to me. I hate it. I hate that people think that I’m that because I know who I am and I know that I’m an empathetic, compassionate person.”
Ellen DeGeneres recently showed support for Rosie O'Donnell who moved to Ireland in protest of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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