THE TIME FOR TALK IS OVER
ELLEN DeGeneres is not as nice as you think.
This was the headline in a New York Times article on Ellen three years ago – long before any of the drama she became embroiled in last year began to surface.
The story suggested that the fun, friendly persona on her talk show was an act – not the woman she really was at heart, who was far more serious and complex than the jokey, everyone’s-bestfriend image she portrayed.
Back then, Ellen hinted she’d had enough of the talk show that made her fabulously rich and famous – it was time to focus on something else, do something different.
Even her wife, Portia de
