Ellen DeGeneres said she endured “excruciating back pain” but is now feeling “100 percent” after testing positive for COVID-19.
In a health update Wednesday, the embattled talk show host, 62, posed at home with her dog and addressed the public via video.
“I’m feeling 100 percent,” she said in the video posted to social media. “I feel really good.”
Last Thursday, DeGeneres revealed that she’d contracted COVID-19, noting at the time she was “feeling fine.” In Wednesday’s clip, however, DeGeneres addressed the “excruciating back pain” she endured.
“One thing that they don’t tell you is you get, somehow, excruciating back pain,” DeGeneres said. “Didn’t know that that was a symptom but I talked to some other people — back pain. Who knew, how come? Back pain, bad.”
Fever or chills, shortness of breath, fatigue, and a new loss of taste or smell are among the symptoms of COVID-19, according to the CDC.
DeGeneres’ diagnosis followed a BuzzFeed report alleging the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” was struggling to book talent and had lost sponsors in the wake of toxic workplace claims from over the summer.
