Ellen DeGeneres: She makes three illness diagnoses public

Ellen DeGeneres, 66, revealed in her Netflix comedy special “For Your Approval” that she was diagnosed with osteoporosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder and ADHD. , she explains in the special: “I don’t even know how I can stand up straight. I’m like a human sandcastle. I could dissolve in the shower.” It’s hard to “talk honestly about aging and seem cool about it.”

Of the osteoporosis, she explained on stage, according to People: “One day I was in excruciating pain and I thought I had torn a ligament or something and I did an MRI and they said, ‘No, it’s just arthritis.’ She asked the doctor how she got it, “and he said, ‘Oh, it just happens at your age.'”

DeGeneres celebrated her departure from her talk show “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in 2022 after 19 seasons. In 2020, allegations were made about poor working conditions on the show’s set. Some employees had reported that there was a “poisonous” climate of fear and intimidation behind the scenes at the talk show. The presenter, who began her entertainment career as a stand-up comedian and actress, then apologized on TV. In her Netflix special, she revealed that after the allegations and the hater reactions, she started therapy, which led to two further diagnoses.

She didn’t recognize the clinical picture for a long time

“I might have OCD, a therapist explained, and I said, ‘Yeah, I’m very organized,’ because I thought that was the O,” DeGeneres said. “I didn’t know what OCD was [Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, zu Deutsch: Zwangsstörung, Anm. d, Red.] “She grew up in the Christian Science religious community, “which does not recognize any illnesses or disorders. So when I was growing up, no one talked about it. There was no discussion about it.”

Looking back, she now realizes that her father also had obsessive-compulsive disorder. “He checked the doorknob 15 times before we left the house, he checked the faucet 15 times, he unplugged everything before we left the house because lightning could strike and it could catch fire. They say “It could be hereditary.” Her wife Portia de Rossi (51) also confirmed that she had signs of OCD.

Ellen DeGeneres also stated that she suffers from ADHD [Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-Hyperaktivitätsstörung, Anm. d. Red.] suffer. “My ADHD makes it really difficult for me to sit down and concentrate on anything,” she reported. “Do you know how hard it was for me to put this together? Of course you don’t. Why would I ask that question?” So she has ADHD, obsessive-compulsive disorder and is losing her memory as she gets older. “I obsess over things, but I don’t have the attention span to stay with them, and I quickly forget what I was actually obsessing about. I think I’m balanced with that.”