Watch Ellen Page discuss coming out with Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen Page has discussed her decision to come out with Ellen DeGeneres.

The Juno actress revealed she was gay at the Human Rights Campaign’s Time to Thrive conference in Las Vegas in February.

During an interview on The Ellen Show uploaded to YouTube yesterday (April 30), Page tells DeGeneres: “I’m grateful to you because you did it at a time where it was much harder and much scarier.”

Later in the interview, 27-year-old Page explains that she feels better in herself since she made the decision to be open about her sexuality.

“I knew I would be a happier person,” Page tells DeGeneres. “I knew that I was gonna feel better and I did not anticipate just how happy I would feel in just every aspect of my life – just an ease and a comfort,” she says. “It’s really been quite extraordinary to feel just the shift – it was pretty much overnight too.”

Page won a BAFTA for her performance as a wise-cracking pregnant teenager in 2007′s Juno. She has since appeared in films including Whip It, Inception and To Rome With Love.

Watch the actress on The Ellen Show below.

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