Robert Irwin & Terri Irwin Break Down in Tears Over Bindi Irwin — What Really Happened?

was scheduled to attend the second annual gala in Las Vegas alongside her brother and mother. Instead, she ended up in emergency surgery. Robert later told People that his sister had tried to push through and attend anyway, putting on "a brave face in a lot of discomfort and a lot of pain," telling people she was going to "tough it out." But the surgeon overruled her, telling her plainly that her appendix had to come out and that her health had to come first. TODAY.comTODAY.com Bindi underwent surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, and roughly an hour after coming out of the operating room, she recorded a video for her followers from her hospital bed, thanking them for their support and explaining what had happened. She told fans her appendix had been removed, 14 new endometriosis lesions had been taken out, and a hernia from childbirth had been repaired in the same operation. She wrote separately that the new lesion count brought her total to 51 lesions removed across two surgeries, two years apart. TODAY.com + 2