Ellen DeGeneres Opens Up in First Sit-Down Interview in Over a Year About Her New 'Forever' Home & Sharing Work With Wife Portia de Rossi in 'RIV Magazine' Interview

On her new “forever” home in Montecito:

“This place is all about the spot. The house needed a lot work but the spot was always amazing. Strangely this was the very first place Portia and I ever looked at up here (in 2007)…truthfully I didn’t even want to see the place. It’s the longest I’ve ever deliberated on a property. Because the site was incredible but the house, while good bones, basically didn’t have a single surface I could live with and everything clashed with everything. Even the ceilings.”