Rosie O’Donnell just lately described a well being incident, and has individuals speaking.
Usually, Rosie O’Donnell’s take-no-prisoners angle implies that she’s not afraid to name out beloved Oscar winners and treasured speak present hosts alike.
Typically, she turns that scrutinizing gaze upon herself.
Rosie just lately detailed a well being disaster that she witnessed, pondering that particular person’s peril– and her personal response within the second.
Rosie O’Donnell attends the Pleasant Home “Stronger Together” thirty third annual awards luncheon at The Beverly Hilton on October 28, 2023. (Picture Credit score: Monica Schipper/Getty Photos)
The well being disaster that Rosie O’Donnell witnessed was not her personal
Not too long ago, Rosie O’Donnell attended a New York Rangers sport, which analysis tells us is a hockey staff. She was together with her son, Blake O’Donnell, and his new spouse, Teresa Garofalow Westervelt.
In the course of the sport, a fellow spectator went by means of what seemed to be a dire well being incident.
“Two rows ahead of us, all of a sudden, in the second quarter, the people around this guy get up and start screaming, ‘Medic! Medic! Medic!’” the comic shared on her TikTok account, as you’ll be able to watch beneath.
Rosie O’Donnell performs onstage throughout FRIENDLY HOUSE LA Comedy Profit, hosted by Rosie O’Donnell, at The Fonda Theatre on July 16, 2022. (Picture Credit score: Amy Sussman/Getty Photos)
Persevering with her TikTok video, “The guy had just slumped over, and they couldn’t wake him up.”
Rosie O’Donnell interjected throughout her recollection of the particular person’s well being even that she is “not good in times of crisis like this.” She added that she turns into “very panicked and very loud.”
She then continued: “They were screaming [for] medics. So I get up because the aisle to the left of us was empty, so I could go right down the aisle. And I went to grab the security guy and the people who work there, and I’m screaming, ‘Call 911, we need a medic …’ But loud. And my voice is loud to begin with.”
Rosie O’Donnell’s harrowing story continues
“This woman runs over, must have been an EMT person, and pretty much jumps over the two rows that were the row in between us and then where the man was sitting, and starts to help him,” Rosie O’Donnell narrated.
“And soon — you know, not soon enough for me — but soon the police were there, and EMT was there,” she described. “And they got him up, and they carried him out and up.”
Rosie then mirrored: “How horrible to have a medical emergency in the middle of a crowded stadium and then get put in an ambulance in New York City, where there’s always traffic, you know?”
Rosie O’Donnell speaks onstage throughout the thirtieth Annual GLAAD Media Awards New York at New York Hilton Midtown on Might 04, 2019. (Picture Credit score: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photos for GLAAD)
“Sometimes I so annoy myself,” Rosie O’Donnell admitted in terms of her “fight or flight” response to conditions with any stage of urgency. “It annoyed my son, too, because he’s like, ‘Mom, you didn’t have to do that.’”
She recalled admitting: “I’m like, ‘I know. I didn’t should, however I felt like I needed to,’ as a result of to take a seat there in my panic and do nothing was not an possibility.
“But I’m learning how to deal with that. I’m learning how to deal with that fight or flight response,” Rosie affirmed. “I think I do much better in my normal life and relationships, but I don’t do it better when there’s like a catastrophe emergency.”
Rosie OâDonnell attends ‘Center Theatre Group presents the opening night performance of ‘A Transparent Musical’ at Mark Taper Discussion board on Might 31, 2023. (Picture Credit score: Emma McIntyre/Getty Photos)
Everybody has their very own response to an emergency
“I have emergency, catastrophe panic — even anticipatory emergency panic. Like before [Hurricane] Milton, I was a mess,” Rosie O’Donnell described. “You know, all these hurricanes, all this tragedy, the wars. I don’t have a calm way to deal with it or to accept it. My body and my brain just goes, boom.”
Some persons are in disaster mode always, to the purpose the place an precise emergency feels nearly like a reduction — like they’ve been coaching for all of it alongside. Others can fly right into a panic over another person’s scenario. That doesn’t should be a nasty factor. Typically, it’s how heroism takes place.
Rosie O’Donnell additionally affirmed: “I pray that guy was okay. I don’t know what happened to him.” We, too, hope that he’s okay.
