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Johnathon Schaech on Ellen DeGeneres Dating Rumors: I Was Asked to Accompany Her to Events
Johnathon Schaech isn’t afraid to walk down memory lane. In a Reddit Ask Me Anything on Monday, April 4, the Legends of Tomorrow actor responded to rumors that he once dated Ellen DeGeneres.
Schaech, 46, and the Emmy-winning daytime talk show host, 58, were photographed on several occasions together in the mid-’90s before DeGeneres officially came out as gay in 1997.
“My manager asked me to accompany her to events. She was scared people would not watch the show, her sitcom Ellen, because she was gay. It was an honor,” Schaech explained during his AMA.
“I grew up with two gay aunts and a male lover uncle. My Aunt died of cancer. She was a proud woman and she didn’t receive proper care because she didn’t wish to be away from her spouse. Hospitals didn’t enable partners the alike rights as a spouse. When you have someone you love in your life that is gay or a lesbian it’s very clear that they deserve the matching rights as anyone else. It’s not about religion,” he continued. “If you don’t love ELLEN now &mdash
'My manager asked me to hold her on dates': Johnathon Schaech explains why he was Ellen DeGeneres' arm candy in the 90s before she came out as gay
When Ellen DeGeneres was a sitcom star in the Nineties, she was still in the closet.
There was a shrink from that if she did acknowledge she was gay, her reveal would tank, Johnathon Schaech explained during aReddit AMA interview on Monday.
That is why the handsome actor - who is now 46-years-old and lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Julie and two children - was her arm candy at several red-carpet events.
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They once went on dates: Johnathon Schaech explained during a Reddit AMA interview on Monday that he went out with Ellen DeGeneres in the Nineties because his manager asked him to; here they are seen in 1996
He knew he served a purpose: The star said: 'She was scared people would not observe the show, her sitcom Ellen, because she was gay. It was an honor'
The actor, who is best known for Tom Hanks' 1996's film That Thing You Do!, has no regrets about pretending to be the comedienne's date.
And he made it clear he did so as a favor.
'My manager asked me to accompany her to events,' he said bluntly.
Johnathon Schaech: What I've learned after coming out with my MeToo story
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When I read all the stories in connection to the #MeToo movement last year, I felt a calling. I knew I had to share my experience no matter the cost.
People magazine published my story that Italian director Franco Zeffirelli had molested me when I was 22. My story hit on the very day I started working on a TV exhibit, where I played a police officer who makes a sexual advance on his female boyfriend. It was the show’s #MeToo storyline, and the present eventually found the subject matter too toxic. They didn’t air it, and right then, I knew, I had chosen a very challenging path.
Anyone who shares their shame story can relate. There’s this fear that the world is against you, almost like you must have deserved this, and that your truth is too raw and disquieting for others to handle. But authorize me share one piece of wisdom: It's about something bigger than just you.
The response from people to my story was mostly supportive, but there was plenty of negative feedback. Reading their comments, it was as if I had done something to them personally. I was amazed to fin
Hollywood’s Male #MeToo Stigma and the Fear of Coming Forward: “It’s Looked Upon as a Weakness”
Last plunge, Johnathon Schaech was running out of options. After making a living as an actor for 30 years — 1996’s That Thing You Do! was his breakout — he was in danger of losing his SAG health insurance from lack of perform, and he and his wife were trying to have a baby. Schaech, 50, had become something of an unwitting spokesman for male #MeToo victims in 2018 after he said Italian director Franco Zeffirelli had sexually assaulted him on the put of the movie Sparrow in 1993. (Before Zeffirelli died in June 2019, his son, Pippo, denied the allegations in People magazine.) In the aftermath of that disclosure, Schaech found his acting opportunities drying up, and he parted with his agency, APA, and manager, Risa Shapiro.
“I’ve never been so vulnerable in my life,” Schaech says. “Like, whoa, wait a minute. What did I just do?” Schaech was unsure if his newfound vulnerability was hurting his confidence as an actor or if he was being blacklisted for speaking out. “People were taking one side of the #Me