Date 20/11/2015 - News People
Ellen DeGeneres says getting the role of Dory in Finding Nemo helped her through her "lowest point".
While the 57-year-old star is now happily married to Portia de Rossi and has a successful daytime talk show, she admitted that after her sitcom The Ellen Show was cancelled in 2002 she struggled to find work.
However, being offered the role of Dory proved to be her salvation.
"By the time Nemo was coming out, I had just gotten The Ellen DeGeneres Show, but during that time nothing had happened. So Dory's motto: 'just keep swimming' certainly applies to me and to a lot of people out there."
