I would have given her a 0.0 rating, but she deserves credit for having pretented to be a lesbian for so long. She certainly had Ellen fooled.

Her biography says people fretted that her career would be destroyed by her "coming...
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I would have given her a 0.0 rating, but she deserves credit for having pretented to be a lesbian for so long. She certainly had Ellen fooled.

Her biography says people fretted that her career would be destroyed by her "coming out," but she seems to have worked the notoriety of being gay into a platform for better roles. This she did at the expense of Ellen's feelings and the gay community, which certainly didn't need her using homosexuality for publicity.

But justice would prevail as her career has faltered since she dumped Ellen and claimed she was now straight again after being magically healed of a serious mental breakdown.

As for her acting, it really leaves a lot to be desired. The best on screen role I saw her in, John Q, was because she basically played herself, a nasty, calculating jerk.

No one should be allowed to thrive at the expense of someone else's feeling or by trying to jump on the bandwagon of a group of people suffering from discrimination. Notice she jumped off that bandwagon in 2000, as the country was taking a decidedly conservative turn.