Ellen DeGeneres Hospitalized After Wine-Related Accident

Ellen DeGeneres had a big confession to make on her show Tuesday. During her opening monologue, the singer admitted that she’d been hospitalized — but it’s probably not what you think.

Click through to read what she had to say about the accident. We dare you not to laugh!

This story first appeared at Womanista.

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“I have something to show you — it’s that right here. Can you see it?” DeGeneres asked, directing the camera to show her splint. “I broke my finger. I know what you’re thinking: ‘How can you host a show without the tip of my ring finger?’ I am not gonna let this thing beat me. I am not.”

“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,” DeGeneres admitted, saying she and wife Portia De Rossi “were coming home from a dinner party and were “almost at the front door” when the accident happened.

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“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,” she said.

Much to the surprise of her audience, DeGeneres showed them a photo of her dislocated finger. “I should have warned you. Don’t look at that. If you’re squeamish, don’t look at it,” she told them. “I’m sorry.”

“My first thought was, ‘No big deal; Obama Care will cover this.’ So, Portia drove me to the hospital – to the emergency room – and when I got there, of course, the receptionist had so many things for me to sign: a picture of her nephew, a T-shirt for her,” DeGeneres joked. 

“No, they were wonderful. UCLA, thank you so much…There was a lot of people who were helpful, but Tammy, thank you so much. Tammy was my nurse who was taking care of me,” she added.

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DeGeneres then displayed an X-ray of her finger. “Don’t worry—this isn’t as bad as the last one I showed you,” she said. “Maybe it is. I was wrong. It’s worse. I’m so sorry.”

Fortunately, DeGeneres didn’t break her finger after all.

“I dislocated my finger. That’s what they call it, which is an incorrect term because I knew where it was located,” she said.”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.”

“Yeah, you can see why they have to go to eight years of medical school. Before they did it, I was in incredible pain and Tammy 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, Tammy.’ She meant a shot to numb my finger,” DeGeneres said.

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After she did her signature dance segment, she shared a few more details of her visit.

“When I was leaving, I went through the emergency room and tons of people — the people who were conscious, anyway — were looking at me. There was this one cute couple…They came up to me and he was like, ‘Can we get a selfie with you?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, sure,’ ” DeGeneres recalled.

“It’s like 12:30 now. So, he and his girlfriend are sitting there getting a selfie and he says, ‘I hope you’re going to be OK.’ And I said, ‘I just dislocated my finger. What happened to you?’ And he goes, ‘I got hit by a bus’… I said, ‘Are you OK?’ He said, ‘Yeah, I think so…I don’t know. I may have a concussion,’” she continued.

“He won,” DeGeneres said. “He won the story.”