Inside Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s Life-Changing Love Story

On David Letterman‘s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction in 2019, Ellen called her wife “fantastic.”

“She’s very, very funny. She makes me laugh, which is really important.” When she started getting ready for her first stand-up special in over 15 years, the comedian said, Portia was entirely supportive and even gave her notes after every performance.

As for the split rumors, Ellen chose to view them in a positive light.

“The divorce rumors came and then we really knew the perceptions had changed,” she told Dave. “I’m not kidding. I know it sounds ridiculous, but when that started happening, I thought, ‘Oh, now we’re finally accepted.’ We get the same s–t as every celebrity couple.’

“I thought, ‘Wow, this is great that I’m pregnant, not pregnant, divorced, not divorced, whatever. That means there is an acceptance for this.”

Leave the rumors, take the opportunity to see more moments from Ellen and Portia’s enduring love story: