Ellen Gets Teary

Ellen DeGeneresEllen DeGeneres was one cool cat as she hosted the glitzy Oscars on Sunday night.

But the actress has since tearfully revealed she was frightened to death moments before hitting the stage.

A day after hosting the star-studded event, Ellen settled back into her regular talk show host seat to reflect on the night before.

She confessed to her audience: "I'm crying for many reasons. I'm tired, so I'm emotional ... [but hosting the Oscars] represented so many things to me. It represented that people believed in me, they took a chance in me to hold something like that together, that people would want to see me.

Ellen hosting the Oscars"Hosting the show was hard. It was harder than I thought and I was scared to death. I didn't know how I would do. ... You know, you have confidence at the same time as you have insecurities."

The host received a standing ovation as she walked onto the set of her show, and rightfully so.

You see, Ellen brought something no other host has done to the Oscars - a touch of daytime.

She casually strolled up and down the aisle, as she often does on her chat show, nattering at ease with Hollywood's power players such as Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood.

And Hollywood's A-list took notice, as a string of celebs from Beyonce to Kate Winslet poured their praise on video which was played on the talk show.