Author: Dailymail.com Reporter / Source: Mail Online
Ellen DeGeneres has been revisiting a painful period in her life before she was a successful comedienne and chat show host.
The 60-year-old explained to Dax Shepard how the tragic death of her girlfriend when she was 20 spurred her on and eventually led her into stand up comedy.
‘My girlfriend was killed in a car accident when I was like 20 years old. 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,’ DeGeneres said on Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.
The Ellen Show host recounted how she couldn’t afford to continue living at the home she shared with her girlfriend and moved into a small basement apartment by herself.
‘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?’’ she said.
‘I just thought it would be amazing if we could just pick up the phone and call up God and ask questions and get an answer,’ she explained to Shepard.
That led her to come up…
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