Ellen DeGeneres defended her friendship with former President George W. Bush on Monday after facing criticism for going to Sunday’s Dallas Cowboys game with him.
DeGeneres and Bush attended the game with their spouses and sat with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. In her explanation of the situation, she revealed that they were invited by Jones’s daughter Charlotte. The controversy began when Bush and DeGeneres were shown on the television broadcast and people expressed their displeasure on social media.
In the video, DeGeneres highlighted one tweet from an unverified user that reads, “Ellen and George Bush together makes me have faith in America again.”
“Here’s the thing,” she stated. “I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have. We’re all different. And I think that we’ve forgotten that that’s OK that we’re all different.”
“But just because I don’t agree with someone on everything doesn’t mean that I’m not going to be friends with them,” DeGeneres went on. “When I say be kind to one another I don’t mean only the people that think the same way that you do.”
The Dallas Cowboys, whom DeGeneres was rooting against, ended up losing the game 34-24 to the Green Bay Packers.
