Kaley Cuoco has returned to work on 'The Big Bang Theory,' but despite the fact she's still wearing a cast on her badly broken leg, her injury won't be written into the show.

During an interview with Ellen DeGeneres Cuoco laughed that "They're not writing it in ... [And] I'm not going to question it. I was kind of shocked. I thought they were going to, but they're just going to be hiding me kind of like when you're pregnant."

So that means Cuoco's character, waitress Penny, will be getting a new role at the Cheesecake Factory in order to hide her cast and limp: "They're going to have her as a bartender now."

Cuoco also revealed the shocking news that at one stage doctors thought they might have to amputate her right foot.

"[The doctor] really was telling me that they were thinking there was infection ... [I thought] my foot was gonna be gone ... They had to tell me because I was going into emergency surgery that I might be coming out with one foot."

Cuoco broke her leg in a horse-riding accident last month and her character was written out of 'The Big Bang Theory' for two episodes. She fell off her horse during a lesson and then the horse tried to leap over her, landing on her leg: "I heard the crackling [and] I thought he landed on leaves -- but that was my bones."

The actress is back at work after spending two weeks in the hospital. She underwent two major surgeries and was fitted with "metal bars" to her legs. However, she still managed to joke that, "For the rest of my life I'll be setting off metal detectors."

'The Big Bang Theory' airs Thurs., 8PM ET on CBS.