Wanda Sykes opens up about how Ellen helped her parents accept her sexual orientation

Wanda Sykes and Ellen DeGeneres
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Out comedian Wanda Sykes opened up about how Ellen helped her come out to her parents.

Sykes was on Ellen’s show yesterday– no surprise, she’s been on every season and appeared on the show 39 times – and she said that she didn’t know how to feel about Ellen’s show ending after 19 seasons.

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“You know, you’re just iconic, and the whole community just appreciates you because you took the blow, man,” Sykes said, referring to the controversy and attacks Ellen faced in 1997 when she came out on her hit sitcom, which was canceled shortly after. “You were the first one to really be out-out like that and it helped so many of us.”

She then explained how…

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