Jennifer Aniston felt ‘bizarrely sad’ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

• Jennifer Aniston made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in May.
• She described the experience as “bizarrely sad”.
• Ellen’s final episode aired Thursday. 

Jennifer Aniston described her appearance on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ as “bizarrely sad.”

Jennifer, 53, made an appearance on the long-running talk program in May, and she fought to keep her composure while taping the historic episode.

The Hollywood star – who is best known for playing Rachel Green in ‘Friends’ – shared: “It was so bizarrely sad. I have to say, because I did the show at the beginning of the year and I was really emotional then, and I kind of was like, ‘I can’t do that on the last show. I’m going to really lose it.'”

Jennifer was Ellen’s first guest when the show originally aired in 2003, and she returned several times throughout the show’s 19-season run.

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However, before filming the emotional last episode, the actress made a point of chatting with Ellen backstage.

She told People: “We made sure we saw each other beforehand so we could get any of that [emotion] out.

“It didn’t feel like the last show. It was bizarre.”

Ellen’s final show began with a clip from the very first episode. She went on to finish the historic performance with a monologue recognizing improvements in LGBTQ representation in the entertainment industry.

At the start of her career, Ellen remarked, she “wasn’t allowed to say gay.”

The TV star – who is married to actress Portia de Rossi – said: “I was not allowed to say ‘gay’. I said it at home a lot. Like, you know, ‘What are we having for our gay breakfast’ or ‘Pass the gay salt? Has anyone seen the gay remote?’ Things like that, but we couldn’t say ‘gay’. I couldn’t say ‘we’ because that implied that I was with someone, sure; couldn’t say ‘wife’ and that’s because it wasn’t legal for gay people to get married – and now I say ‘wife’ all the time.

“Twenty-five years ago, they canceled my sitcom because they didn’t want a lesbian to be in primetime once a week, and I said, ‘OK, then I’ll be on daytime every day. How about that?'”