'Modern Family' star Julie Bowen actually didn't rescue fainted hiker: 'I did nothing'

Julie Bowen served as guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night (Aug. 17), and the former Modern Family star used part of her opening monologue to address this story from earlier this month.

"I was hiking in Arches National Park in Utah with my sister and my kids, and we found a woman who had fainted," the 51-year-old actress began. "Her name is Minnie John, and she had been hiking with her husband and her son, and she felt dizzy and told them to go ahead. So, she then fell over, hit her head and started bleeding everywhere right in front of us. It was so gross, OK?"

"Now, my sister is a doctor. Her name is Annie," Bowen continued. "She's an infectious disease specialist—highly overqualified and more than capable of applying a little roadside hiker first aid. So, she goes Meredith Grey right away. Starts applying pressure and doing, like, doctor stuff. And I brought all my professional expertise to the table by yelling things that I had heard on episodes of ER. Like, 'Code blue! Crash cart!' So useless."

Bowen then pointed out Page Six's headline about the incident that painted her as a hero and corrected it to say, "Bowen does jacks—t."

The two-time Emmy winner noted that her 12-year-old twins, Gus and John, ran to find the hiker's family, while her 14-year-old son, Oliver, used his knives to cut gauze for Bowen's sister. 

"Minnie is totally fine now, by the way," Bowen concluded. "And look, I know this isn't the point here, but believe me, getting recognized by somebody who has sustained a serious head injury is extremely flattering. So, just to recap, everyone helped save this woman. My sister, my twins, my knife-y son, and I did nothing."

Watch Bowen's full 15-minute opening segment as well as her interviews with Minnie Driver and Jacob Elordi below.