Stars Who Were Hospitalized For Mysterious Reasons

Celebrities sometimes go to the hospital for the most odd reasons. Some of their injuries are freak accidents while others are the result of exhaustion or just bad genetics. No matter the circumstance, visiting the emergency room is never fun and in some cases, it can bring unwanted news about a worsening condition. From Ellen DeGeneres breaking her finger in a silly wine accident to Zac Efron crushing his jaw and Sarah Silverman's strange throat ailment that left her sedated for five days, here is a round up of stars who landed in the ER for mysterious reasons.

Too much wine isn't a good thing—just ask Ellen DeGeneres. The real estate queen and comedian nearly lopped off her finger after downing two glasses of wine in early 2017.

Standing on her talk show with her finger bandaged up, she attempted to explain how she landed in the emergency room. "So, 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," she quipped to laughs according to E! News. She and wife Portia de Rossi were coming home from a dinner party when the snafu occurred. "The dogs were so excited to see us and I caught the lip of the top step. 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."

DeGeneres, 59, then showed an x-ray of her disjointed finger. "My first thought was, 'No big deal; Obamacare 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," she laughed. "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."

Mischa Barton, who has a history of medical emergencies including a 2009 meltdown, found herself in need of help once again in January 2017. According to USA Today, The O.C. alumna was taken to a nearby hospital after authorities arrived at her Los Angeles residence to find her acting erratically. A sheriff for the police department told the site, "She was speaking incoherently but agreed to go to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center by ambulance."

TMZ posted photos of Barton, 31, screaming over a backyard fence that morning. She reportedly was shouting that her mom is a witch and other words like Ziggy Stardust. She was wearing nothing but a dress shirt and tie.

The star told People magazine that she was drugged. "On the evening of the 25th, I went out with a group of friends to celebrate my birthday. While having drinks, I realized that something was not right as my behavior was becoming erratic and continued to intensify over the next several hours," she told the site. "I voluntarily went to get professional help, and I was informed by their staff that I had been given GHB (date rape drug). After an overnight stay, I am home and doing well. I would like to extend a big thanks of gratitude to the professionals at Cedars-Sinai for their great care and professionalism. This is a lesson to all young women out there, be aware of your surroundings."

In one fell swoop, Zac Efron went from Hollywood heartthrob to damaged goods. In 2013, the now-29-year-old High School Musical alum crushed his jaw in a wild accident at home. "I was running through my house and I slipped and fell on my face," Efron told Jimmy Kimmel (via Us Weekly) once he finally recovered months later. "Let me start over, because the story stars kind of cool. I have a fountain in my houser. That's kind of dope, right? So I was funning through and slipped on water and hit my chin on the fountain in my house. It's not a big fountain, but it's a fountain in my house."

While the situation turned out to be a mess, Efron is thankful his younger brother, Dylan, was around to rush him to the emergency room. "It was pretty gnarly," Efron said of doctors wiring his jaw shut for more than a month. "i was drinking foods for six weeks—only liquid foods. It sucked. I lost 10-12 pounds."

While filming Hairspray, his director Adam Shankman stepped in to take good care of him, according to People. "He has to eat through a straw or a syringe," he dished to the magazine. "It's horrible.... He's in great spirits. He's just like, 'Wow. It hurts.' His jaw is wired shut."

Efron has since fully recovered and has returned to his Greek-God status.

Tamar Braxton, who does everything from sing, act, host a talk show and star in a reality show, nearly wound up dead after a horrendous medical scare. According to People, Braxton, 40, was performing on Dancing with the Stars when docotrs discovered blood clots in both her lungs in 2015. "With a Heavy heart I regret to inform you that my season of #dwts has to come to an end," she shared on Instagram from her hospital bed.

"I went back to the hospital (after the doctors didn't want me to leave in the first place) only to find out that I don't have pneumonia but something way more serious and that is having several P.E.'s (blood clots in both sides of my lungs)," Braxton wrote. "As you all know I will be the first to always encourage anyone to push through any obstacle that comes along one's way. But in this case, my health is my current obstacle... And in TRUE #tamartian form I must go about this the exact same way as I would anything else. I woke up to a mirror and saw myself this morning and that makes me the winner because that almost wasn't the case. Take care of yourselves... I love you and thank you ALL for your support."

As part of her treatment, Braxton had her rib removed, reports The Real. "Doctors prescribe blood thinners to treat the blood clots but are concerned that the pain in her upper chest is most likely due to a blockage in a vein," said a clip on the star's health. "Further medical tests reveal Tamar suffers from a condition called thoracic outlet syndrome. Due to strenuous activity, the muscles around her rib have become enlarged, blocking the blood from flowing to major veins and arteries in the arm and causing blood clots to form."

Sarah Silverman thought she had a typical sore throat but soon learned she had a serious case of epiglottis, which knocked her out for five days. Recalling as much detail as she could remember, Silverman laid it all out on Facebook in the summer of 2016. "I was in the ICU all of last week and I am insanely lucky to be alive," she wrote. "Don't even know why I went to the doctor, it was just a sore throat. But I had a freak case of epiglottitis."

Silverman says during surgery she couldn't fully be sedated because her blood pressure was too low. "I was drugged just enough to not feel the pain and have no idea what was happening or where I was," she said. "They had to have my hands restrained to keep me from pulling out my breathing tube. My friend Stephanie said I kept writing 'was I in an accident?'" Five days after surgery, Silverman woke up and couldn't remember a thing and could only communicate with handwritten notes and letters on a simple board.

"I thanked everyone at the ICU for my life, went home, and then slowly as the opiates faded away, remembered the trauma of the surgery & spent the first two days home kind of free-falling from the meds / lack of meds and the paralyzing realization that nothing matters," she said. "Luckily that was followed by the motivating revelation that nothing matters." Silverman also thanked her family, friends, close loved ones and medical staffers for taking care of her once she was allowed to go home. Silverman says she was never left alone during those tender days.