DeGeneres Has Chest Pain Scare

Ellen DeGeneres says she's doing fine after feeling chest pains yesterday—and she wants to "thank" TMZ for spreading the news that paramedics were called after she felt unwell during a producers meeting yesterday. "What happened was last night I was having chest pains. So this morning the paramedics came to look at me. First of all, I'm fine. Let me just say, I'm fine," the 53-year-old comedian said, quipping: "The paramedics were strippers that I had called."

"We called the paramedics here on the Warner Bros. lot and about 50 trucks and ambulances, like one marching band short of a parade, showed up outside of my office," said DeGeneres, who was not hospitalized. "I have a baboon heart that I had put in earlier … It's not true. But I want to say thank you to all the paramedics and the nurses who showed up and everybody and TMZ—for caring so much." (More Ellen DeGeneres stories.)