That family member already knew that Ellis is bisexual - the 53-year-old has been open about her sexuality to her friends and family in Mississippi and the people she has worked with for decades. One of my family members noticed, but nobody else did.” “It wasn’t that I was expecting any sort of major reaction or anything like that. “I was thinking, ‘Why didn’t more people pay attention to that?’ And I was like, they probably thought it said ‘Queen,’” she tells Variety over Zoom, bursting into a hearty laugh.
