Bijou Phillips
I Might Be Gone In Days If I Do not Get a Kidney Quickly
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Bijou Phillips is staying constructive, however she’s not blind to the fact of her declining well being … she says she might have a complication and die “in a few days” whereas she awaits a kidney match.
The 45-year-old actress instructed Us Weekly … “I could make it on dialysis for a couple years, or I could get an infection in my line tomorrow and be gone in a few days.”
She continued … “I’m really hopeful, [but] it’s an extremely urgent situation.”
Bijou was born with underdeveloped kidneys and spent the primary three months of her life on dialysis. She’s battled kidney illness ever since.
In 2017, she obtained a kidney transplant from a buddy, however that kidney failed. Her rep beforehand instructed TMZ she suffered severe issues, together with the BK virus, which triggered mobile and antibody rejection.
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Bijou instructed Us Weekly she went by way of a “dark night of the soul” earlier than the primary transplant and have become at peace with leaving … however now she has one thing value combating for.
“Now I’m a single mom and things are different,” she mentioned. “I want to be here for her, and I have to be here for her. The fight is back. That had been gone for a long time. I’m it. I’m all she’s got.”
Bijou and her ex-husband Danny Masterson welcomed daughter Fianna Francis in 2014. After Masterson was discovered responsible on 2 counts of rape in 2023, Bijou filed for divorce and requested full custody of Fianna.
Bijou instructed Us Weekly, “[Fianna is] really wise, and I’m just so proud to be her mother. She takes things that are really hard in life and handles them in this really classy way. I don’t deserve such an amazing human in my life. It’s magical.”
