The 'Ellen DeGeneres Show' host is taken to emergency room after she tripped and injured her finger following a night out.
- Mar 22, 2017
AceShowbiz - Ellen DeGeneres has just injured her finger. The comedienne recalled her visit to hospital in her true fashion, cracking jokes and poking fun at herself during a monologue on the recent episode of her talks show.
"So, you know how in gymnastics when you do a one-handed cartwheel and you have to spread the weight evenly between all your fingers? Well, I had two glasses of wine and fell into a door," she said. "Portia [de Rossi] and I were coming home from a dinner party. We were at the door, the dogs were so excited to see us and I caught the lip of the top step. I was a foot away from the door and I fell into the door and it did something to my finger, I knew something was wrong."
"My first thought was, 'No big deal, Obama Care will cover this,' " the funny woman quipped. "So, Portia drove me to the emergency room. And when I got there, of course, the receptionist had so many things for me to sign: a picture for her nephew, a T-shirt for her."
"I dislocated my finger. That's what they call it, which is an incorrect term because I knew where it was located. It was just wrongly located is what it was ... So, do you know what they do when you dislocate your finger? It's very technical. What they do is they take the part that’s dislocated and then they just snap it right back into place," she went on.
"Before they did it, I was in incredible pain and [the nurse] said, 'Do you want a shot?' And I said, 'No, I had two glasses of wine. That's what got me into this mess in the first place.' She meant a shot to numb my finger," Ellen added.
"So it was a hard weekend for me. But I put on a brave face and I made it through. And luckily my friends from Shutterfly heard my story and they love helping people out in need, so they wanted to present me with this check for $10,000, which is so nice."
