Jane Lynch says Ellen DeGeneres "blazed a trail" for her to appear out.

"You were at the acme of your acclaim and you came out. And that aloof blazed a aisle for me," Lynch said on Wednesday's The Ellen DeGeneres Show, apropos to DeGeneres' acclaimed "Yep, I'm Gay" Time annual awning in 1997. "It fabricated it so abundant easier for me what you did."

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The Emmy-winning Glee brilliant said she never capital to adumbrate that she was gay, but wondered how to or if she should appear out. Lynch added that actuality a appearance amateur fabricated it easier.

"If Julia Roberts were gay, I anticipate it would be harder. She's an ingénue. You demand to activity your hopes and dreams for adulation [on stars] like Brad Pitt," she said.