And the reason why is unexpected.
Like the twists and turns that interweave soaps, the reason is unexpected.
Ripa passed out while making love to her husband and awoke in an ER.

Kelly Ripa once passed out during sex with Mark Consuelos and woke up in the emergency room.Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
Not BDE, but a twin pair of ovarian cysts.
“Sex can be so traumatic I think, and yet one of us is completely undaunted.
There he is, happily munching on the saltines now and ordering a second apple juice.
Mark could be at a movie, or a spa.
Instead, I’m flat on my back wondering when the other two cysts will burst.”
I didn’t realize I had come to."
She said of their marriage, “You have to have a yin and a yang, right?
The longtime couplecelebrated their 26th wedding anniversary in May.