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Ellen DeGeneres Addresses Workplace Scandal successful Teaser for Final Comedy Special
Ellen DeGeneres is getting much honorable than ever before.
The comedian precocious got candid astir the mental and carnal wellness journeys she’s undergone implicit the past fewer years, including a diagnosis of what she described arsenic “full-on osteoporosis.”
“I don't adjacent cognize however I'm lasting up close now,” Ellen joked successful her caller Netflix special For Your Approval, which premiered Sept. 24. “I'm similar a quality sandcastle. I could disintegrate successful the shower. It's hard to beryllium honorable astir aging and look cool.”
And successful summation to osteoporosis, the 66-year-old besides elaborate learning she had arthritis.
“I had excruciating symptom 1 time and I thought I tore a ligament oregon thing and I got an MRI and they said, ‘No, it's conscionable arthritis,’” she explained. “I said, ‘How did I get that?’ And helium said, ‘Oh it conscionable happens astatine your age.'”
But successful summation to the carnal ailments, Ellen besides spoke to the intelligence wellness travel she’s undergone since The Ellen DeGeneres Show ended successful 2022 amid toxic workplace allegations.
In her caller special, Ellen details being diagnosed with OCD (also known arsenic obsessive compulsive disorder, which according to the Mayo Clinic “features a signifier of unwanted thoughts and fears that pb you to bash repetitive behaviors”) portion undergoing therapy pursuing her exit from the show.
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“I whitethorn person OCD due to the fact that a therapist said truthful and I said, ‘Yes I americium precise organized,’ due to the fact that I thought that was the O,” she said. “I didn't cognize what OCD was. I was raised successful a religion, Christian Science, that doesn't admit diseases oregon disorders. So erstwhile I was increasing up, cipher talked astir anything. There was nary treatment of anything.”
Yet now, with caller cognition and knowing astatine her disposal, the speech amusement alum is recognizing definite behaviors.
“I look backmost present and I recognize my dada for definite had OCD,” she remembered, noting the information tin beryllium hereditary. “He would cheque the doorknob 15 times earlier we'd leave, he'd cheque the faucet 15 times, helium would unplug each the appliances earlier we near the location due to the fact that lightning could onslaught and it could drawback fire.”
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Ellen noted that erstwhile she broached the taxable with her woman of 16 years Portia Di Rossi, the Arrested Development star instantly recognized the behaviors that align with the disorder. But Ellen joked that she’d ever viewed her ain behaviors arsenic “careful” alternatively than obsessive.
The Ellen alum further spoke to her travel with attraction shortage hyperactivity upset (ADHD), which she refers to arsenic ADD successful the special.
“My ADD makes it truly hard to beryllium down and absorption connected thing astatine all,” Ellen explained. “I mean, bash you cognize however hard it was for maine to enactment this together?”
She joked, “So, I person ADD, I person OCD, I'm losing my memory. But I deliberation I'm well-adjusted due to the fact that I obsess connected things, but I don't person the attraction span to instrumentality with it, and I rapidly hide what I was obsessing astir successful the archetypal place.”
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