Actor and model Bijou Phillips revealed she’s in dire need of a kidney transplant ― and is “hanging on by a thread.”
“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,” Phillips told Us Weekly in Friday’s edition. “I’m really hopeful, [but] it’s an extremely urgent situation.”
Phillips, who appeared in “Almost Famous” and as a recurring character in the TV series “Raising Hope,” said she’s needed a transplant for a year.
The 45-year-old is the daughter of the late Mamas and Papas leader John Phillips and the sister of “One Day at a Time” alum Mackenzie Phillips and singer Chynna Phillips of the group Wilson Phillips. She was born with underdeveloped kidneys and received her first transplant about 10 years ago.
But in a Feb. 11 Instagram post she said complications had arisen, including antibody rejection, and she would need a new kidney.
Phillips, who divorced imprisoned rapist Danny Masterson of “That ’70s Show,” praised boyfriend Jamie Mazur for helping her in her struggle.
“He gets me to fight where I wouldn’t probably have fought,” she said to Us Weekly in a video on Instagram.
Phillips recalled her daughter, Fianna, playing with dolls at age 3 and pretending one of them was going to dialysis.
“I’m all she’s got,” Phillips told Us Weekly.
Bijou Phillips, pictured earlier this year at a movie premiere, needs a kidney transplant about 10 years after receiving her first.
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