On a season two episode of Netflix’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, Ellen Degeneres recalls her mother, Betty DeGeneres, marrying “a very bad man”.

The second season of this incredible interview show debuts this Friday, May 31st 2019 on Netflix. Some reviewers got a sneak peak, including the very personal and revealing headline from Ellen.

From ETONLINE.com:

Ellen explains that just after Betty married this man, her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and had one of her breasts removed. Ellen says the man used this information to sexually assault her.

Ellen goes into even more detail about the incident, telling Letterman, “He tries to break my door down, and I kicked the window out and ran ’cause I knew it was going to go more to something… and I didn’t want to tell my mother ’cause I was protecting her and I knew that would ruin her happiness.”

“I’m angry at myself because, you know, I didn’t — I was too weak to stand up to — I was 15 or 16,” Ellen admits. “It’s a really horrible, horrible story and the only reason I’m actually going to go into detail about it is because I want other girls to not ever let someone do that.”

This season, David Letterman also sits down with Kanye West, Tiffany Haddish, Lewis Hamilton and Melinda Gates.  I inhaled the first season, and you can enjoy that on NETFLIX now, while waiting for season 2.

Susan Saunders 5/23/19