Failed GOP gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner has once again opened up about her years-long feud with daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and–surprise!–she’s still holding a grudge over a tense on-air exchange they had way back in 2015 that nobody even remembers anymore.
On Big Brother VIP, Jenner recalled the time she went on The Ellen DeGeneres Show shortly after coming out as trans. DeGeneres began with “normal questions” before asking about her stance on same-sex marriage, which Jenner had previously said she opposed.
“So I try to do my best and I thought I did OK,” Jenner said. “But looking back on it, I could’ve handled a couple of things a little bit differently.”
During the tense interview, Jenner labeled herself “a traditionalist” while talking about her outdated views on same-sex marriage.
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“I kind of like tradition, and it’s always been a man and a woman, and I’m thinking ‘I don’t quite get it,'” she said six years ago before adding that she didn’t want to “stand in front of anybody’s happiness.” Degeneres pushed back by telling Jenner she sounded like she still wasn’t “on board with it”, to which Jenner replied, “It’s going to be, pretty much, the law of the land, so I feel like I’m OK with it.”
“I didn’t think [Ellen] would respond the way she did,” Jenner said on Big Brother VIP. “And then she goes to me, ‘Well it sounds like you’re really not for it.’ And I said, ‘No, I just said I’m for gay marriage.’ The next week, she goes on Howard Stern’s show… and says I was against gay marriage and absolutely burnt my ass. And so, in the media, I got really tough on her.”
Jenner went on to say that, after the interview, she considered calling her ex-wife, Kris Jenner, to ask that she and the other members of the Kardashian dynasty boycott The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
“But I didn’t,” she admitted. “I thought, ‘I don’t want to get involved in that.'”
This isn’t the first time Jenner has blamed Degeneres for making her look back. In her tell-all memoir The Secrets of My Life, she accused the funny lady of “alienating” her from the LGBTQ community.
Degeneres has not responded to Jenner’s latest remarks.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Cam
Typical Republican. They say something then get furious that the TV actually showed what they said.
Max
“…she accused the funny lady of “alienating” her from the LGBTQ community…”
for heaven’s sake Caitlyn, you /’pusi/ …take some responsibility for finding a way to connect with the LGBTQ. Ellen is not the gatemaster. you’re just using this as an excuse not to try or easily avoid gays that would try to get you to understand why marriage for us is important among other issues. you even avoided your own family’s opinions because you felt it would be too involved.
ugh.
Mister P
Jenner doesn’t need help from anyone to make her look bad. She does just fine.
Imjustsaying
Ha! I think Caitlyn Jenner is a HUGE asshole and Ellen DeGeneres has never entered the equation.
BoyMercury
Lil’ typo “making her look back”
Fahd
Someone with her name recognition got 1% of the vote in the recent California gubernatorial election associated with the recall. Really very few people are interested in her thoughts and utterances. Good thing, because she seems like a uniquely dumb as*hole example of an entitled rich person.
Jack
Caitlyn Jenner is the cheap joke we never EVER needed. Ellen came after you because you are a horrible representation of our community. But add that to the list. Horrible parent, horrible husband, horrible gubernatorial candidate…..
pdus
I so agree with you
Terrycloth
She couldn’t of pulled a Trump when confronted with video evidence of what she said…still deny it .
Ginger Tom
Who says Jenner isn’t an a**hole? Who is disputing it apart from Jenner herself?
RTG
Jenner is a world class as*h*le all by herself. No help from Ellen needed. She expects everyone to “get used to her” as a woman but divorces herself from every other letter in the LGBTQ+ universe……And if her dalliance’ with her friend who is also trans is true, she has same sex sexual attraction. She needed to get over herself a long, long time ago.
Halfnhalf
She didn’t need any help. She’s transgender and but none of her beliefs or views align with that fact. I’m confused that she accepts her own identity. She should had tried being tortured to be straight, because the only thing scientific she accepts is her transness. She’s an embarrassment for the community.
Phillip
Caitlyn, don’t blame it on Ellen; just own it.
leauxbeaux
I started to say she is not trans, rather a bad drag queen. That, however, disparages drag queens of whom I have fondly known so many. Cross-dresser would be more correct but otherwise the same assheauxle she has been for as long as she, then he, has been grabbing headlines.
Jaquelope
Let me get this (if you’ll pardon the expression) straight. She says that marriage should be between one man and one woman, then transitions into a woman, but doesn’t change her stance on marriage, so that must mean she WANTS a man, Makes you wonder what was going on in Bruce’s mind before the transition.
As Bruce, he was fairly attractive, but as Caitlynn, she’s not at all attractive, and I whole-heartedly agree that she needed no help from Ellen, or anyone, to make people think she’s an a**hole.
nitejonboy
Yeah I try to not judge people on looks, but god Caitlyn is so ugly I cringe every time I see her….a face not even a mother would love. How did the once handsome Bruce Jenner turn into that ?
nitejonboy
Anyone who would go on national TV and say people just like her shouldn’t have the same rights as anyone else deserves the shaming she’s gotten over the years. Marriage between a man and a woman ? Um, says the woman who used to be a man. And I would have loved to see those trash Kardashian’s faces when she’d ask them to boycott Ellen. They would cut off their noses before they’d give up press, they’re whores for it.
GrizzleyMichael
I find it pathetic how she went all the way to Australia to be on a reality show instead of being in the US fighting for position as the new governor of California. God I was hooked to watch both seasons of I Am Cait, and at the end of season one she had a naming party. Caitlyn Marie Jenner is her new name. How embarrassing was it for her when she met Hilary Clinton when all she did was bad mouth her
GrizzleyMichael
Ellen didn’t have to make you look like an asshole. You did a excellent job of it yourself UGLY LOSER
Doug
Just watched this review and I don’t see anything negative in the interview coming from Ellen. Jenner seems uncomfortable throughout the whole clip.
James
CAITLYN JENNER IS A PIECE OF SH*T.