NEW YORK (AP) – Ellen DeGeneres reveals in the latest issue of Allure magazine that her stepfather molested her as a teenager.

While speaking about her messy breakup with actress Anne Heche, the talk show host said her stepfather insisted on feeling her breast while DeGeneres’ mother was fighting breast cancer. She said the incident later escalated into “other things” and her stepfather, now deceased, tried to break into her bedroom.

“I had to kick a window out and escape and sleep in a hospital all night long,” DeGeneres told Allure.

DeGeneres said she’s speaking about the incident because “it’s important for teenage girls out there to hear that there are different ways to say no. And if it ever happens to them, they should tell someone right away.”

She insisted the occurrences, which happened in her late-teens, had no effect on her sexual orientation. DeGeneres’ “coming out” was featured on a 1997 Time magazine cover and as a plot in her ABC sitcom.

“People I’ve confided in about this before say, ‘Oh, that’s why you’re a lesbian,”‘ said DeGeneres. “But I was a lesbian way before that. My earliest memories are of being a lesbian.”

The 47-year-old host of “Ellen” also said she prays she and current girlfriend Portia DeRossi are “together the rest of our lives.”

“I never would have thought my life would have turned out this way,” said DeGeneres. “To have money. Or to have a gorgeous girlfriend. I just feel so lucky with everything in my life right now.”

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http://www.allure.com/

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Adam Sandler wrote “Hi to everyone” and left his handprints and prints of his shoes in cement at the fabled Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.

The ceremony Tuesday coincided with the upcoming release of his latest film, “The Longest Yard,” set to open May 27.

“Today’s one of the first times when I’m just sitting back and doing what my father told me and enjoying the moment and enjoying the fact that this is a terrific feeling,” the 38-year-old actor-comedian told an audience that included Jack Nicholson, Rob Schneider and Kathy Bates.

Sandler said that when he told his family he was pursuing an acting career, his relatives told him that he would follow in the footsteps of some big stars.

“I didn’t become any of those people,” said Sandler, a former cast member of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” “But today I can officially say I am now the legendary Adam Sandler.”

Sandler’s screen credits include “Mr. Deeds,” “Happy Gilmore,” “The Wedding Singer” and “The Waterboy.”

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http://www.adamsandler.com/

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NEW YORK (AP) – James Gandolfini says unlike Tony Soprano, he has a “useless temper.”

The actor who plays the violent mob boss on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” is currently shooting the sixth and final season of the show, but reminisces about the formulation of the iconic character on CBS’s “60 Minutes Wednesday,” (8 p.m. ET).

“I have a little bit of a temper, but it’s … a useless temper,” Gandolfini says. “It doesn’t accomplish anything, generally. It’s just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.”

“You know, all writers are vampires and … they’ll look around and they watch you when you’re not even thinking they’re watching you and they’ll slip stuff in.”

Chase, the creator and writer of “The Sopranos,” has kept a tight lid on the story lines for the new season – which is sure to elicit endless speculation on who gets whacked.

“One of the things I like about doing this show is that you can kill people off, and it helps with my problem, which is I get bored with things really easily,” says Chase.

One major character that could bite the bullet is Tony Soprano’s wife, Carmela, played by Edie Falco. Though the two feuded considerably in the last season, Falco doesn’t see it happening.

“That would be unlikely,” she says. “Who would cook?”

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http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/60II/main3475.shtml

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NEW YORK (AP) – Brad Pitt says he’s still proud of his relationship with Jennifer Aniston, four months after their separation.

In an interview in GQ magazine, on newsstands Friday, Pitt expresses nostalgia and happiness for his 4 ½ years of marriage with Aniston, who filed for divorce in March.

“There’s a beauty in our coming together, there’s a beauty in our time together, and there’s a beauty in this, for us,” Pitt says. “I’m actually really proud of us. … We’ve done it our way, and I love her for that. We’ve kept the love we have for each other.”

On reports that he wanted children, but Aniston didn’t, Pitt says: “That was one version,” but totally unfounded.

As to reports of a romance with his “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” co-star Angelina Jolie, Pitt didn’t explicitly deny them, but said he pays it no mind.

“Jen and I have felt pretty impervious to it all. We have not seen a thing, so that we can carry on this new incarnation with the love we still have for each other. My attitude was, say what you want, we’re not playing.”

Instead, Pitt describes the reasons for their breakup as “complex and multifaceted” and “not one thing.”

Now, the 41-year-old actor says, he has growing interest in doing things other than movies: “Truthfully, I’m interested in other things now. Like family.”

Though Pitt says he’s not ready to remarry and start that family yet, he adds: “I’m not worried that it’s not gonna happen. I’ll make it happen. You go make the thing that you want.”

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http://men.style.com/gq