Portia de Rossi is recovering from a health scare. A source told PEOPLE, “Ellen rushed Portia to the hospital on Friday night, she was in a lot of pain.” The actress had appendicitis and needed surgery. Fortunately, the procedure went well and De Rossi is “now resting at home and Ellen is taking care of her. It was a scare at first, but all good now.”
Ellen DeGeneres talked about the scary situation on Tuesday’s episode of The Ellen Show. “Anybody else have to rush their wife to the emergency room for an appendectomy? Anybody? No? Just me? OK,” she quipped before revealing more details of her wife’s current health status.
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She explained that the couple had gone to bed early on Friday night before DeGeneres woke up to discover de Rossi "on the floor on all fours."
"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," she said. "So anyway, they gave her a CT scan and I didn't know what that was."
Due to Covid-19 protocols, DeGeneres was then sent home. "They said we have to admit her to the hospital and they won’t let me stay because of COVID and so that’s upsetting to me. They sent me home and I’m crying," she explained.
It ended up being appendicitis. "The next morning, they call and they said, 'It's the appendix. We have to take the appendix out,'" DeGeneres continued.
Post-surgery, de Rossi was "in a lot of pain," but DeGeneres assured fans that her wife is "feeling much better now."
"She's home. She came home late yesterday. Not all of her, she left her appendix at the hospital," she joked.
Watch the clip here:
