Ellen DeGeneres is remembering someone dear to her.
The former talk show shared a moving tribute to a frequent guest of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Tayt Andersen, who died on Sept. 26 after “taking a turn for the worse due to an infection” amid his battle with cancer, according to his family. He was 19.
“We had a very special guest on the show several times and his name is Tayt,” Ellen said in an Instagram video posted shortly after his passing. “He thought that I was his girlfriend, and so I told him he was my boyfriend.”
The 67-year-old shared fond memories of Tayt, saying that he was “a very special little human being and just brought joy and life and laughter into every room that he was in.”
While Ellen, who has been married to wife Portia de Rossi since 2008, looked as if she had more to say, tears began to fill her eyes as she added, “I will miss him.”
