Madonna is doing her part to combat bullying in America by revealing that she, too, felt "isolated and alienated" as a young girl. The 52-year-old icon appears on today's The Ellen DeGeneres Show via satellite from New York.

The singer, who says the gay community "has been incredibly supportive of me," tells Ellen:

    “I can totally relate to the idea of feeling isolated and alienated. I was incredibly lonely as a child, as a teenager. I have to say I never felt like I fit in in school. I wasn’t a jock. I wasn’t an intellectual. There was no group that I felt a part of. I just felt like a weirdo.”


When it comes to her style, Madonna reveals, "I still feel different." As for the issue of bullying, she tells the audience:

    “I’m incredibly disturbed and saddened by the overwhelming number of teen suicides that have been reported lately because of bullying. Suicide in general is disturbing. Teenagers committing suicide is extremely disturbing, but to hear that teenagers are taking their lives because they are being bullied in schools and dormitories, what have you, is kind of unfathomable.”


The mother of three also discusses how she's been addressing the issue with her own kids. She says:

    “We talk a lot about the importance of not judging people who are different — not judging people who don’t fit into our expected view of what’s cool and what isn’t. The concept that we are torturing teenagers because they are gay — it’s unfathomable. It’s like lynching black people or Hitler exterminating Jews. Sorry if I’m going on a rampage right now, but this is America. The land of the free and the home of the brave….”


Don't mess with Madonna!