Ellen DeGeneres admitted during an interview that Donald Trump is the reason she and Portia de Rossi moved to the United Kingdom.
In her first interview since leaving the United States, Ellen DeGeneres confirmed that she and her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, moved to the UK after Donald Trump was re-elected.
According to the BBC, during a conversation with British host Richard Bacon, the comedian revealed that she couldn’t be happier with her decision. DeGeneres said that she and de Rossi went to England in 2024 to spend a few months, but Trump’s return to the US presidency changed the couple’s plans.
“We arrived here one day before the election and woke up to several messages from friends with crying emojis, and I thought, ‘He did it.’ And we said, ‘We’re staying here,’” she said.
DeGeneres moved with de Rossi to a house in Cotswold, central England, and told the interviewer that she loves her new home and her new life.
“Everything here is just better, the way animals are treated, the people are polite. I just love it here,” she revealed, and confessed plans to marry de Rossi again in the UK and expressed fear about the situation of the LGBTQ+ community in the US.
“The Baptist Church in the United States is trying to reverse gay marriage,” she explained. “They are literally trying to prevent it from happening in the future and possibly reverse the situation. Portia and I are already looking into it, and if they do, we will get married here.”
“I wish we were in a place where it wasn’t scary for people to be who they are,” DeGeneres said. “I wish we lived in a society where everyone could accept other people and their differences.”
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