Ellen DeGeneres Recalls Experience With Sexual Assault

Ellen DeGeneres has come out on her experience with sexual assault from her stepfather as a teenager and she wants the public to know that victims are not often making claims up.

Narrating how the ordeal went down in a discussion with David Letterman, she revealed her stepfather took chances on her and would fiddle her breast when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was about 15 or 16-year-old. 

According to Ellen, her abuser who died in 2005 would use her mother's health issue as a reason for him to feel her breast to examine if she could have the same health issue.

"He told me when [my mom] was out of town that he'd felt a lump in her breast and needed to feel my breast," she said in the conversation "Anyway, he convinced me that he needs to feel my breast and then he tries to do it again another time and then another time."

Whilst the abuse was going on, she revealed she was afraid to stand up against it and tell her mother about what her husband was doing to her body. When she finally did tell, she couldn't her until she left the house when she was 18 and remained quiet about the issue "because he'd changed the story so many times."  

Ellen wants to use her experience to encourage victims to come out because she believes most of them "just don't make stuff up"

The 61-year-old media icon will be the guest on David Letterman's Show "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction" which will be coming up this Friday on Netflix.