In Touch: Does Portia de Rossi think Ellen DeGeneres cheated on her?
I’m pretty sure that In Touch Weekly was right when they claimed, last month, that Portia de Rossi had entered rehab in Malibu following months (years?) of marriage problems with Ellen DeGeneres. One of you said it so perfectly, I have to jack the comment: “Ellen seems to always have relationships with women who are troubled.” (Thanks GiGi.) That’s it in a nutshell. I think Portia had demons before she even met Ellen and they worked through some stuff together, but their relationship is probably not healthy at all. Ellen likes women who are DRAMA. Portia is a lot of drama. They’re both to blame. Anyway, this week’s issue of In Touch Weekly says that Ellen and Portia are trying couples therapy… after Ellen maybe had an affair?
Sources tell the new issue of In Touch that Portia de Rossi believes wife Ellen DeGeneres cheated before her rehab stay and that the couple are now in therapy.
Portia thinks “she had an affair with one of their mutual friends right before Portia’s rehab stint in May,” an insider exclusively tells In Touch, on stands now.
But Ellen insists she doesn’t want to give up on their marriage, the insider alleges, so she agreed to go to couples therapy years ago.
“It’s going to take a lot for Portia to trust Ellen again,” the source tells In Touch. “They kept up with the therapy after Portia got out of rehab, but they still have a long way to go.”
In Touch broke the story of Portia’s secret 30-day rehab stay at Passages Malibu earlier in July.
Drama. I’m telling you. Both of them are feeding on it. It’s emotionally symbiotic but profoundly unhealthy. I have to wonder about the politics of this as well – Ellen DeGeneres is seen as America’s Lesbian Friend, a groundbreaker for so many in the LGBT community, someone with enormous crossover clout (like Neil Patrick Harris, who can basically do no wrong). Ellen’s image would take a hit if A) everyone thought she cheated on her wife or B) if she and Portia split. Then again, it does prove what marriage-equality proponents have always said: gay marriage is just the same as hetero marriage. Same issues, same troubles, same unhealthy patterns.
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