Ellen DeGeneres on the tragic loss that changed her life
Ellen DeGeneres has opened up about the tragic event that led to her big break in comedy.
"My girlfriend was killed in a car accident when I was like 20 years old," the 60-year-old comedian and talk host told Dax Shepard on his podcast "Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard" on Tuesday. "And I wasn’t doing comedy, I think I was probably waitressing someplace at the time. I was living with her when she was killed."
Unable to afford their apartment on her own, DeGeneres said she then moved into a "tiny little basement apartment."
"I was sleeping on a mattress on a floor and it was infested with fleas. And I used to write all the time, I wrote poetry and songs and stuff, and I thought, ‘Why is this beautiful 21-year-old girl just gone and fleas are here?’" the winner of 10 Emmy Awards told Shepard.
