Ellen DeGeneres Went to the Hospital After a Wine-Related Incident

You think it’s all fun and drinking, until someone gets hurt. That’s exactly what Ellen DeGeneres learned this week — don’t mess with doors! Especially when you’ve had two glasses of wine.

The host displayed a broken finger on her show, telling the audience that after she and Portia were returning from a dinner party (where she had a couple glasses of wine), she fell onto her front door and accidentally broke her finger.

“The dogs were so excited to see us and I caught the lip of the top step,” she explained. “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.’ 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 for her nephew, a T-shirt for her…

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

“I dislocated my finger,” she explained. “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. 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. She said, ‘You’re gonna feel a little prick.’ This is a daytime show—you make up your own joke there.”

We’re so sorry for your finger, Ellen! At least it wasn’t the middle one??

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