Sep 27 2011 01:12 PM ET

Ellen DeGeneres explains chest-pain scare: 'Let me just say, I'm fine'

Ellen DeGeneres is in good humor after being rushed to the hospital yesterday for chest pains. The comedienne made a jokey statement in her opening monologue just after the incident, declaring “First of all, I’m fine. Let me just say, I’m fine. The paramedics were strippers that I had called. That’s how the rumors got started.” See the full video, and hear the rest of DeGeneres’ explanation after the jump.

DeGeneres explained that she felt a tightness in her chest starting Sunday evening that carried into when she arrived at the studio to tape her talk show on Monday. She called the paramedics as a precaution because “it’s better to be safe than sorry, and who doesn’t want to see a fireman occasionally?” She admitted she was surprised at the number who responded. Her statement continued in its Is she joking or is she serious? manner that many have come to love about DeGeneres. She reiterated, “Everything is fine. I don’t know what it is, but it’s fine,” then quipped, “I have a baboon heart that I had put in earlier.” DeGeneres wrapped up her statement, thanking the paramedics, nurses, and TMZ “for caring so much.”

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  • amy

    Glad she’s okay, she is a great person and SO FUNNY!

    • lucyfier

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  • Rob

    Please check your information. Ellen was NOT rushed to the hospital. She was treated at the set of her talk show on the Warner Brothers lot.

  • Metzner

    I wish she would do movies again like she used to. She is a good actress.

    • yeah because Mr. Right was such a scream!

      • Metzner

        Well, I was thinking more along the lines of Edtv (1999).

      • Joe

        Or Finding Nemo

      • Paula

        Very happy your okay. You were great in Nemo……..everyone says that I sound a lot like you….the sound of our voices. Idk. Be well.

  • KC

    Was never funny, will never be.

    • Lisa

      I will always remember her for that little dance routine she does at the start of every one of her shows. Everything else was downhill from there.

  • DC

    She’s oddly morphing into a Chaz Bono version of Anderson Cooper.

    • Rob

      You have way too much time on your hands to have come up with that humdinger. Your education speaks volumes. EW must be a stepping stone to your prowess on the educational scale. Kudos!

  • ego

    Maybe now she’ll stop embarrassing herself with that awful “dance” she does.

    • rob

      I thought that was the point, to look goofy and have a good time. You must be fun at parties.

    • Brenda

      I think ellen is a good person, shes helped a lot of people…and for someone to not like her dance how do you know she does it so much? thats what she gets fo having chest pains?To be degraded? nice world we live in.

    • Paula

      Oh….come on now….Ellen is actually living her life ……. We all do our own thing….it’s ours alone. Let her have her quirks !

  • Hans

    Ellen who? Does any one care anymore?

    • ^

      Just the unemployed, the simple-minded and the bored housewives.

      • Joe

        I suppose your more into Snooki etc.

      • Listenhere….

        It’s YOU’RE.

      • Paula

        The locust swarm begins.

  • pamela

    Ellen is a screem!!! She is so far out of most peoples intelligence quotion. Her creativeness and quickness of wit astonish me Long live Ellen!!

  • Denise

    She needs a complete cardiac workup!!! Now!!!

  • m vines

    she is all heart so please take care ,,,,you make us enjoy life and we are blessed to have such a loving and happy person share their talents

    • Paula

      I agree.

  • ellen sucks

    the old lesbian finding men sexy gag. unfunny self indulgent zero.

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    It’s refreshing to see and feel the warmth and crazy fun Ellen brings .

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