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Danny Masterson’s Ex Bijou Phillips Receives Life-Saving Kidney Transplant After ‘Hanging on by a Thread’
Bijou Phillips is celebrating a major health milestone.
The actress, 46, shared good news about the kidney transplant that has given her a new lease on life via Instagram on Tuesday, July 7. “I am beyond beyond grateful to everyone who rushed into help me, get checked to donate, you are all hero’s!” she wrote.
Phillips explained that her brother, Aron Wilson, donated through a kidney exchange program. “He saved a life, and the life he saved had a special person donate for them, and then a few weeks later! The voucher program found me a perfect match! So close it’s like I got the kidney from one of my parents!” she shared on social media.
“I am so [blown] away by Dr Veale and the magic he does! … He only cut the facia! He didn’t cut the muscles so I didn’t even really need much pain medication at all, just Tylenol!” she wrote, adding, “Thank you UCLA! And all the amazing drs and coordinators and nurses and everybody there has been so wonderful and amazing.”
The post included a hospital selfie with Wilson and a video of Phillips leaving UCLA Health as a nurse wheeled a cart of flowers behind her.
Famous friends flooded the comments, including Nicky Hilton, who wrote, “So happy for you. What an incredible gift.” Fans chimed in too, with one writing, “Congratulations! I’ve had my transplant for 27 years. Stay hydrated and take your medicine.” Another follower, also a transplant recipient, added, “Awesome I’m a transplant recipient as well. Over 15 years strong!” while a third simply wrote, “We are so happy for you! You deserve the world!”
As National Enquirer previously reported, Phillips described herself as “hanging on by a thread” earlier this year while awaiting a donor. At the time she said she was fighting to stay alive for her 12-year-old daughter, Fianna, whom she shares with ex-husband Danny Masterson.
Phillips filed for divorce from the That ’70s Show alum, 50, in September 2023, after he was sentenced to prison for 30 years to life for raping two women. She later petitioned to remove his surname from their daughter’s name.
