Caitlyn Jenner Blames Ellen DeGeneres for ‘alienating’ her from the LGBTQ community

In Caitlyn Jenner’s  upcoming book, The Secrets of My Life, she blames Ellen DeGeneres for “further alienating” her from the LGBTQ community.

The 67-year-old TV star, who was known as Bruce Jenner before she underwent a gender reassignment, spoke to DeGeneres on The Ellen show in 2015 about her evolving views of same-sex marriage.

“I believed, as anyone would, that that was exactly what she wanted to talk about my progression in terms of changing attitude over the years,” she writes in her new memoir, Radar Online reports. Jenner writes that, having been opposed to gay marriage in the past, her views had changed since coming out as transgender. “If that word ‘marriage’ is really, really that important to you I can go with it,” she writes.

Jenner says she was “surprised” in the interview when DeGeneres said, “It’s funny you’re still kind of a little not on board with it.”

“I am for it,” she writes. “I did not initially understand why marriage was so important, influenced not doubt by my own personal experience. Now I do, and it’s a wonderful thing to see.”

“This discussion further alienated me from members of the LGBTQ community. Ellen’s appearance on ‘The Howard Stern Show’, where in my mind she even more emphatically took what I said out of context, made it go viral,” according to Jenner.

“She still has a judgment about gay marriage,” DeGeneres shared with Stern. “And I said, ‘You’re wanting people to understand and accept you — this is like, really confusing to people — and you still have a judgment about gay people and marriage.”

The I Am Cait star had admitted during her interview with DeGeneres that she never used to approve of same-sex marriage, but her attitude had changed in recent years.

“I have to admit that I remember 15 years ago, 20 years ago, whenever it was that the whole gay marriage issue came up, I was not for it. I am a traditionalist. I mean, I’m older than most people in the audience. I like tradition and it’s always been between a man and a woman and I’m thinking I don’t quite get it,” Jenner said.

She added, “But as time goes on, like a lot of people on this issue I’ve really changed thinking here, to I don’t ever want to stand in front of anybody’s happiness. That’s not my job. OK. If that word marriage is really, really that important to you I can go with it.”

Jenner explained to DeGeneres when she was accused of being “still a little not on board” with the idea. “No, I’m on board. It’s going to be pretty much the law of the land. So I still feel like yeah, I’m OK with it. I don’t want to stand in front of somebody’s happiness.”