Before the "Ellen" Talk show Ellen was on a sitcom entitled "Ellen" IN which she plays a 30 year old book shop owner called Ellen Morgan. The show featured Ellen, her family on the show and her crazy friends.
Ellen came out both in real life and on screen as her character in "The puppy episode". This caused a lot of controversy in real life causing a "parental advisory" be placed at the beginning of each episode. (It was like being gay was something "inappropriate" back then.) She wanted to free herself at the time from shame and hiding.
There was much celebration in the Lesbian and Gay community regarding Ellens "coming out" Ellen was hurt by some peoples reactions of her coming out and claims to have "sat in my house as long as I could until I ran out of money. Then I started over again"
Coming out held Ellen back for a while and the reaction caused her to suffer from depression. She was depressed for approximately three years. She was fired from her TV show and no one would hire her for three years. In this time Ellen received many letters from teenagers who had stopped themselves from committing suicide after watching Ellen come out. Ellen was then offered to do a talk show. This was another challenge as many channels refused to air it. But the show did air on September the 8th in 2003.
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