Lifestyle Health Celebrity Health Report: Bret Michaels Released from Texas Hospital The rocker was hospitalized Monday after undergoing an emergency appendectomy By People Staff Published on April 15, 2010 01:20PM EDT Photo: Gus Ruelas/AP Bret Michaels has been released from a Texas hospital following an emergency appendectomy earlier this week. Early Monday morning, the Celebrity Apprentice star and former Poison frontman was rushed to Christus Santa Rosa Hospital-Westover Hills in San Antonio, Texas, after suffering from excruciating stomach pains originally thought to be symptoms of the stomach flu. He had remained under the care of his doctors until Wednesday when hospital officials confirmed that Michaels, a diabetic, was released, the San Antonio Business Journal reported. Bret Michaels Undergoes Emergency Appendectomy Get a sneak peek of this week’s issue – Phoebe Price’s world, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy’s split and Kate Gosselin’s fight for her kids – which is on newsstands Friday PeopleTV Archive: Bret Michaels Rocks Your World