The comedian and talk show host’s partner had appendicitis and had to have an emergency appendectomy.
Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel, DeGeneres said she drank three cannabis-infused drinks ahead of the unplanned trip, admitting the journey was “probably not safe”.
She explained that she found her wife on the bathroom floor in pain which prompted her to drive her to the hospital despite drinking three “weed drinks” and consuming sleeping pills.
“Chelsea Handler told me about these weed drinks, they’re called Cann, and they have CBD or [THC] — I don’t know what the good thing is,” DeGeneres, 63, explained. “I drank one, and I didn’t feel anything, so I drank three, and then I took two melatonin sleep pills. And I’m laying in bed, and I realize [Portia’s] not in bed.”
“She’s moaning. I get out of bed, and she’s on the ground on all fours, and I said, ‘You’re not ok.’ She goes, ‘I’m ok.’ I said, ‘No, unless you’re playing Twister by yourself, you’re not ok.’ So I rushed her to the emergency room.”
At this point, Kimmel, 53, clarifies, “You drove her by yourself?”
“I did,” she replied.
Instead of calling an ambulance, DeGeneres rushed de Rossi to the hospital herself. “I kicked in my adrenaline, because I had to rush her there,” she confessed. “So it’s probably not safe. I shouldn’t be saying any of this.”
DeGeneres added that de Rossi is “feeling much better now” following her emergency surgery.
The Ellen DeGeneres Show recently lost over a million viewers following allegations of a toxic workplace on the series.
Fans were understandably upset by her story. One commented on Instagram, “Maybe it’s just time for Ellen to retire.”
“She could’ve killed someone. What was she thinking,” a user wrote on Twitter.
“I’m so tired of her entitled [expletive],” wrote another.
“It’s not the weed it’s her bad decision making call 911!” another vented.