Ellen DeGeneres offers update on Portia de Rossi after emergency surgery

Ellen DeGeneres is opening up about her wife’s recent health scare.

The multiple Emmy Award-winning talk show host gave an update on wife Portia de Rossi’s condition after emergency surgery on Tuesday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

On Friday, the actress was rushed to the hospital to have appendectomy surgery.

According to DeGeneres, her spouse is now resting at home and doing well.

“Anybody else have to rush their wife to the emergency room for an appendectomy? Anybody? No? Just me? OK,” she began in a pre-recorded clip from Tuesday’s show.

The comedian says de Rossi first said she wasn’t feeling well at around 8 p.m. on Friday night and later found her “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,” DeGeneres said. “So anyway, they gave her a CT scan and I didn’t know what that was.”

De Rossi was admitted to an undisclosed hospital, but DeGeneres was sent home due to COVID safety protocols.

“The next morning, they call and they said, ‘It’s the appendix. We have to take the appendix out,’” she revealed.

According to the Mayo Clinic, appendicitis is an inflammation of the appendix and causes pain in a person’s lower right abdomen. As inflammation worsens, appendicitis pain typically increases and eventually becomes severe. The standard treatment is surgical removal of the appendix.

De Rossi was “in a lot of pain” after surgery but is “feeling much better now.”

“She’s home. She came home late yesterday,” she said, deadpanning: “Not all of her, she left her appendix at the hospital.”

The couple tied the knot in 2008 after four years of dating