Ellen DeGeneres isn't afraid to make jokes at her own expense.
On The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday, the host revealed that she dislocated her finger in a wine-fueled incident. And the story is hilarious.
"I broke my finger. And I know, I know what you're thinking: 'How can you host a show without the tip of your ring finger?'" DeGeneres joked about her hosting gig. "I am not gonna let this beat me. I am not."
She went on to explain that after a couple of glasses of wine, she fell into a door, and things went south.
"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 said. Apparently, she and her wife, Portia de Rossi, were at a dinner party, and DeGeneres fell into her front door as they were coming home.
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It sounds like it's partially the couple's dogs' fault, too. "The dogs were so excited to see us, and I just caught the lip of the top step," DeGeneres explained on the show. "I was a foot away from the door, and I fell into the door, and it did something to my finger, because I knew something was wrong."
De Rossi took DeGeneres to the emergency room — luckily, her finger was only dislocated, and not broken, as she'd feared. "It turns out I didn't break it — I dislocated my finger. 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," the host joked. We're glad the injury wasn't more serious — and that she's putting on a smile about the experience.
Check out the funny clip below. Fair warning, though, DeGeneres showed the audience photos of her dislocated joint and its X-ray — so if you've got a queasy stomach, you might want to look away.