EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Zsa Zsa's Husband Tells Her About Amputation -- She Asks, 'Am I Going To Die?'
Jan. 18 2011, Published 10:45 a.m. ET
Ailing Hollywood actress/socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor, 93, asked 'Am I going to die?' when she was told doctors performed emergency surgery to amputate part of her leg.
In an exclusive new interview with Breaking Celebrity News, the icon's husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, revealed he broke the news about the heartbreaking procedure on Monday morning.
"The doctors and I sat down and explained it to her. She was very alert," Frederic said.
"She was not very emotional at all.
"She asked, 'Am I going to die?' and I told her that is why they took the leg.
"I told her that the doctors said that the infection was moving and if it had gone into her hip -- that would be it -- she would die."
As Breaking Celebrity News first revealed, medicos at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center decided on the procedure after an MRI revealed an infection had spread into the bone.
The operation last Friday lasted just more than an hour.
"I helped Zsa Zsa sit up in the bed, and I showed her the bandages where her leg used to be," Prince Frederic revealed.
"She saw it and is aware that her leg is now gone. I told her she didn't need it anyway