Rutgers Student Death: A Devastation For Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres talked in opposition to teen bullying Thursday in the aftermath of the Sept. 22 death of a Rutgers student.

“I am devastated by the death of 18-year-old Tyler Clementi,” she wrote on her show’s website. “If you don’t know, Tyler was a bright student at Rutgers University whose life was senselessly cut short. He was outed as being gay on the internet and he killed himself.”

“We have an obligation to change this,” DeGeneres said. “There are messages everywhere that validate this kind of bullying and taunting and we have to make it stop. We can’t let intolerance and ignorance take another kid’s life.”