The Case Of Julianne Moore's Appendectomy

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Julianne Moore, who portrayed President Alma Coin in the fourth franchise of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 revealed she had an emergency appendectomy a few weeks ago.

"Oh my God, I was in so much unbearable pain," Moore revealed to PEOPLE. "I thought I was going to die." But apparently before she was taken to ER, she suffered another health problem that perturbed her.

"It was crazy," Julianne explained to the publication. "During the summer I do a lot of yoga, but I got a bursa on my shoulder so I had to lay off the yoga. Then I got appendicitis so I was like, 'What the hell is happening?!"

After the surgical operation, her husband director Bart Freundlich documented the medical procedure and kept a few photos of her appendix so she

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