- We're gonna play a game. Everybody stand up.
All right, here's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna ask some questions,
and the last person that's standing up
is gonna come down here and sit down with me, okay?
All right.
So stay standing if you have dark hair.
Stay standing if you have dark hair.
Some people are confused of the color of their hair.
[laughter]
Stay standing if you're a parent.
[people murmuring]
Stay standing if you have one daughter.
[people groan and murmur]
Stay standing if you're from Canada.
- [cheering]
- Stay standing if your daughter's name is Ivy.
- [squeals]
- Come on down here. Hi, Glenda, how are you?
- Hi, Ellen. - You're sitting down here.
- [gasps] - You--
- [quivers]
both: Hi.
- Oh, my God.
- So your daughter Ivy is in the audience.
- She's over there. - How old is she?
- She's 14. She just turned 14.
Couple weeks ago. - She turned 14.
- What is happening?
[laughter]
Oh, my God. - I know, it's crazy, right?
So you live in Toronto, and what do you do there?
- I'm an office manager.
- Mm-hmm. - Uh-huh.
- Okay, and--
Ivy's crying because she's--
So this is amazing, because you took a trip here
as soon as she turned 14,
and this is your first vacation in a while.
And I'm not gonna scare you.
[laughter]
- I've always wanted to be here.
I've always wanted to look over there.
- And you are.
So it's your first vacation in a while, right?
- Yeah. - And you had a choice to...
- Either to move out-- We're saving to move out.
We're currently living in my mom's basement,
sharing a room.
But when it came-- when I asked her,
you know, do we go to "Ellen," or do we move?
And immediately she said, "There's no decision.
We got to 'Ellen.'"
- Right. - So here we are.
- So you've been saving money to move out,
because you're living in your parents' basement,
and you decided this was more important than moving out.
- Uh-huh, uh-huh.
- I hope you all have the same priorities.
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
So we wanted to talk to you because--
Some flowers. You want a drink of water?
- Yeah.
- You always wanted to do that too?
- Ellen water.
[laughter]
- Right, it tastes funny.
- It tastes funny. - Yes, it does.
So you're a single mom. You're struggling.
You're living in your mom's basement,
and so we just wanted to say that,
and we're gonna take a break.
- Okay.
- We're gonna--we're gonna talk to you a little later.
I have a surprise for you later, but not right now.
Not right now.
I'm gonna send you back in the audience,
and then I'll talk to you a little later, okay?
- What is happening? - I know.
When my producers were talking to you,
you kept describing the show in a very interesting way.
Tell everyone how you described the show.
- Basically when I went back home, I--
We were so sad when we left.
Just no words could describe,
because when we're here, it feels like
the rainbows and unicorns and sparkles are born here.
It's so magical in this place that I--
I mean, you guys know now, but wow.
Wow, it's just-- the energy, the love is just--
Oh, I can't-- Oh, my gosh.
- I say that all-- and I think people do--
There is something really that feels
very, very good in this room all the time.
I'm very fortunate that I get to experience it all the time,
but, yes, it does feel like unicorns and butterflies
and rainbows and sparkles.
- We went to Disneyland the day after,
and it just wasn't the same.
[laughter]
- It was--I see castles and characters,
and we both looked at each other and said, "What is this?
It's not 'Ellen.' Take us back to 'Ellen.'"
- No, this is the happiest place on Earth.
- It totally is.
- It really, really is.
[cheers and applause]
- Well, there's something we have--
I don't know why we've been--
I pass it all the time backstage,
and I thought, "This is a perfect time
to show you what we've been hiding backstage."
Let's walk over here, and...
It's a unicorn.
both: Oh, my God!
- There's a rainbow. - Yay!
- A pot of gold.
Isn't this amazing?
- It's so cool! - Yeah.
So... - Wow.
- Here's the thing.
For the past three years, our friends at Shutterfly
have been helping us support amazing families like yours,
and we want you to not only visit us,
but we want you to be able to have enough money
to move out of the basement
and move into someplace else.
So our friends at Shutterfly want to give you...
both: Oh, my God.
- $20,000.
[both screaming]
[cheers and applause]