Ellen DeGeneres has shared an update on her wife Portia de Rossi, after she underwent emergency surgery.
Portia, 48, was rushed to the hospital by the chat show host over the weekend after developing appendicitis.
Speaking on her popular talk show, Ellen said: “Anybody else have to rush their wife to the emergency room for an appendectomy? Anybody? No? Just me? OK.”
The 62-year-old recalled waking up in the middle of the night and noticing her wife was not there.
“I get out of bed and I find Portia on the floor on all fours. And I’m like, ‘Baby are you okay?’ And she says, ‘Yeah, I’m okay.’ And I said, ‘Well you’re okay if you’re playing Twister by yourself, but you’re not okay. You’re on the floor.'”
“So I rush her to the ER, and we’re driving and she’s in so much pain, and I’m worried about her, and I don’t know what’s wrong with her, because as you know, I grew up Christian Science, so my best guess was a demon. So anyway, they gave her a CT scan and I didn’t know what that was.”
Ellen admitted she was “upset” she could not stay with her wife in hospital due to the pandemic.
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“The next morning, they call and they said, ‘It’s the appendix. We have to take the appendix out,'” she said.
Ellen revealed her wife was “in a lot of pain” after surgery, but is “feeling much better now.
“She’s home. She came home late yesterday. Not all of her, she left her appendix at the hospital,” the comedian joked.
Appendicitis occurs when the lining of the appendix is blocked and becomes inflamed, often resulting in surgery to prevent the organ from bursting.
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