Inside Rosie O'Donnell's Tragic Real Life Story

In August 2000, Rosie O'Donnell accidentally sliced a tendon in her hand while removing the price tag from a fishing pole. While discussing the injury on The View(via theNew York Post), she revealed that she had to endure multiple operations to repair the damage. During the third one, she got a staph infection, which resulted

In August 2000, Rosie O'Donnell accidentally sliced a tendon in her hand while removing the price tag from a fishing pole. While discussing the injury on The View (via the New York Post), she revealed that she had to endure multiple operations to repair the damage. During the third one, she got a staph infection, which resulted in a scary situation for the star: O'Donnell was informed that if the doctors couldn't deal with the problem, then they would "have to take it off wherever the infection was" — meaning amputation.

"At this point, I was in pretty bad shape so I was very scared," O'Donnell admitted. "Also my mother died at 30 and I had just turned 39 so in my mind I was a little bit, you know, creating my own [funeral] service." Despite the actress' fear, she was determined to pull through. "I said I don't care what you have to do — I have four kids [and] I don't want to die," she explained. "So do whatever you have to do."

While things ultimately worked out for O'Donnell and she was able to heal and also keep her hand, the celeb went on to emphasize the potential seriousness of the situation, as well as her feelings of good fortune: "I think you can die from a staph infection, but ... I was very lucky. They could have removed the extremity."

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