Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed that she left the United States permanently because of President Donald Trump’s election.

DeGeneres, 67, moved to the Cotswolds with her wife, Portia de Rossi, 52, and has no intention of returning.

The “comedian” explained the reason for the move while speaking to Richard Bacon at the Everyman theatre in Cheltenham over the weekend.

“We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He got in’.’ ‘And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here,'” DeGeneres confessed.

DeGeneres claimed that back in the US, “The Baptist Church in America is trying to reverse gay marriage.”

“They’re trying to literally stop it from happening in the future and possibly reverse it. Portia and I are already looking into it, and if they do that, we’re going to get married here,” she said. “I wish we were at a place where it was not scary for people to be who they are. I wish that we lived in a society where everybody could accept other people and their differences.”

She continued, “So until we’re there, I think there’s a hard place to say we have huge progress.”

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The Daily Mail reports:

Back in 2020, Ellen was embroiled in controversy after being accused of creating a toxic work environment – and later issued an apology.

After nearly two decades of being on the air, The Ellen Degeneres Show also came to an end just two years later in 2022.

She previously told The Hollywood Reporter, ‘I have to just trust that whatever happened during that time, which was obviously very, very difficult, happened for a reason.

‘I think that I learned a lot, and there were some things that came up that I was shocked and surprised by. It was eye-opening, but I just trust that that had to happen.’