Jenny McCarthy opens up about year of 'living hell' as she reveals mystery health battle

Jenny McCarthy has shared her year of "living hell", having gone through nine surgeries in a year to figure out what the mystery illness was that was taking over her life.The 53-year-old opened up about her health journey on the Heal Squad podcast, hosted by Maria Menounos.The actress shared that her health issues kick-started a year ago with an infected root canal, which she first got cleaned and later removed. However, because it wasn't cleaned properly, she suffered from a jawbone infection due to "three of these little toxic pools hiding underneath my wisdom teeth."Watch the video above. Her root cavitations and implants kept getting infected, with the model having to undergo nine surgeries on her mouth in 2025 alone.On top of that, she kept getting growths on her eye that looked like "nastiest whitehead, puss-filled eraser top."Every time she got one of the growths surgically removed, it would grow back four weeks later.READ MORE: The 'shocking' allegation at the heart of Jackie O's $82m legal stoushREAD MORE: Gemma O'Neill breaks silence over her social media absenceREAD MORE: Reality stars go public with secret romance after weeks of rumoursFinally, the John Tucker Must Die star's functional medicine doctor decided to test her for one last thing."My functional medicine doctor said, 'OK, hold on. You're the healthiest patient I have. We gotta go dig deeper,'" she recalled on the podcast.The doctor called her back urgently when the results came in."The reason why you're having constant infections, your body won't heal, you're oozing things is because you have mould. You have mycotoxin poisoning," she recalled the doctor telling her.The Masked Singer judge explained, "Mould releases this toxin in the dust particles and what happens is most people … with good immune systems can handle it. People with weaker immune systems, people with leaky gut, candida, things I am already fighting [can't]."For a daily dose of 9honey, subscribe to our newsletter here.She added, "I have a certain mould that causes seizures. [My doctor] goes, 'If this thing that you've got crosses the blood brain barrier you're going to be in the hospital having seizures."In order to finally treat the illness once and for all, her doctor put her on a heavy-duty mould protocol.She is also undergoing Extracorporeal Blood Oxygenation and Ozonation (EBOO), which is an ozone therapy that filters, oxygenates, and ozonates blood outside the patient's body before returning it.FOLLOW US ON WHATSAPP HERE: Stay across all the latest in celebrity, lifestyle and opinion via our WhatsApp channel. No comments, no algorithm and nobody can see your private details.