“Lily Tomlin could have been the star to declare, “Yep, I’m Gay.”

“The Grace and Frankie star, 79, appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday and opened up about receiving an offer from Time to come out on the cover of the magazine in 1975.

““It was a hard decision to make,” she explained.

“Ultimately, Tomlin turned down the offer.

““I fell down on the side of … probably after what [Ellen DeGeneres] went through, probably good sense,” she said, poking at DeGeneres, who publicly came out as gay on the cover of Time in 1997.”

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