Ellen Reunites Superfan with Her Navy Boyfriend

As you know my birthday is this week and I have received many amazing letters from my viewers. Thank you. So I want to read one of the letters I've received: "Good morning Miss Ellen, my name is Noah Copeland. And I'm a Supply Officer in the United States Navy. First of all, I want to wish you a happy birthday. Currently I'm posted abroad. But I make sure my girlfriend keeps me up to date on what's going on with the show. My beautiful girlfriend Maura has to be your biggest fan. She watches your show every day. And I know you are the reason she has been able to get through this deployment.

She was supposed to be back at the end of January. But things keep getting delayed. And now I'm not sure when I'm going to be home. Since I can't be there with her , I know nothing would make her happier than celebrating your birthday with you at your show. Either way, thanks for keeping my girl company on the road. We love you." And Maura is here. Come here Maura. [Crowd cheering and playing music] Hello. Hello Maura. Where does she live? Oh my g-- Oh here let me get to you-- I'm sorry. --that. I live in San Diego, California at the moment.

But we moved here a year and a half ago. Of? Massachusetts. Massachusetts. So you moved to San Diego and then they rolled it out almost immediately, right? Yeah, like five months later. Five months later. So did you have friends there? Did you know anyone there? No, so it was all really suddenly. Like you go to work on a Friday and then come home from work that Friday, and they're like you're leaving on Sunday. So he had two days to pack up his whole life, basically. And just go away for a year. And he's been gone for over a year.

My gosh, that's so hard. And where is now? His name is Diego García, he is an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. And there's... it's like a military-owned island so even if I wanted to go visit, I can't go visit him and he can't come home. And you can't meet halfway or something? No. My God. So you watch the show. And he also watches the show? Or do you make him watch the show? I'm like a big fan. I can't even believe this is happening right now. But since I'm such a fan, I've basically made him a fan.

We've been watching together while he's been away. I'll FaceTime it when he's watching. Do you FaceTime him while you watch the show, then he FaceTimes it with you? Yes Yes. That's expensive, isn't it? I know. That's so sweet. Alright, so when is he coming home? He just said that he keeps procrastinating but... We don't know. Especially since the government just shut down all flights out of there were cancelled. And he can't leave, so I have no idea when he's coming home. You know the ripple effect of the government shutdown, you think it's a thing and it's even so.

This is horrible. It is very sad. Okay, he said that he wanted you to be at my birthday show, right? Yes. This is not my birthday show, but I want you to be on my birthday show. So bring Maura and the tickets to the birthday show. That? Yeah. Well, that was fun, wasn't it? That was really fun to watch. Because the public went crazy and you're hugging me. I'm like, let's go with me and turn around. So why did you want to surprise her? She loves You. She loves you to death. First of all, I want to say happy birthday.

Thank you. Happy early birthday. Thank you. But you know, I was on a deployment for a year. And she's all alone in San Diego. Her sister lives in Los Angeles and she just wanted to do something special for her. My friends, when they come back from deployment, they're at the pier, and their girlfriends are there, and we couldn't get that. So I wrote and it happened. And it happened. It happened, we made it happen. That's very good. So you had a trip planned, it was for your honeymoon, you were going somewhere, right? Just because he's been gone so long, we wanted to do something special when he got home.

So we were going to go to Puerto Rico. And I actually watched the episode, well I watch every episode, the episode with Ricky Martin when he went to Puerto Rico. And obviously we had to cancel that trip because they are still in ruins. But I texted her and I was like, oh my gosh, I just saw Ellen. How this is so sad. These poor people have absolutely nothing. Like I can't believe how they are being treated. It made me very sad. And I told them we have to do something. So we took all the money we had spent on that trip and donated it to Ricky Martin's fund for Puerto Rico.

That is incredible. We just wanted to do what we could. I knew our trip was not going to work out there. Yeah. Just seeing those people and the animals and everything. I mean there are people who have been powerless, even still powerless right now. Still still. It's so sad. I can't believe it. Well, you're so sweet to do that. And I love you two. I can't give you a gift because you can't accept anything, because you're in the army. But I can give you a gift. OK. And if you choose to include it, that's your business.

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