After 19 years of daytime television, Ellen Degeneres has ended her talk show. Ellen announced last year that her show would be ending with season 19 and today she said her final goodbyes.

In her final opening monologue she talked about how things have changed drastically in the last 20 years.

With an emotional final statement, she reminded us to be accepting and have compassion for each other. Make sure you have some tissues near by for this.