Jenny McCarthy opens up about mysterious illness that led to multiple surgeries

Jenny McCarthy She opens up about the ‘hell on earth’ she faced after learning she suffered from severe mold toxicity and mycotoxin poisoning Maria Menounos‘ podcast.

McCarthy, 53, revealed her medical mystery – which has now been solved – while speaking to Menounos, 47. US WeeklyExclusive clips from hosts coming soon”healing team” podcast show.

At first glance, McCarthy Memories The nightmare all starts with an “infected root canal.”

McCarthy noted that because her root canals were not “completely cleaned out,” her jaw became infected and “I had three little pools of poison underneath my wisdom teeth.”

The actress recalled developing cavities in her roots and “constantly getting infections,” which left her wondering what was happening to her. “I was in surgery, like number eight,” she recalled. (McCarthy To be announced in November 2025 In that year alone, she had nine oral surgeries. )

McCarthy later told Menounos that during her teething troubles, she started “growing growths on her eyes,” which she described as looking like “the most disgusting whiteheads, pus-filled eraser tops.”

“I was like,”what on earth is this? They’re like you didn’t wash your eyes enough. I was like bulls***,” McCarthy recalled.

McCarthy said she had the growth surgically removed, but it grew back four weeks later. The process continued in a vicious cycle, with “oozing infection” through her eyes, while her mouth also became infected and her “implants were rejected.”

“I thought, ‘What’s going on. What’s going on?’ My functional medicine doctor said, ‘Well, wait a minute. You’re the healthiest patient I’ve ever seen. We have to dig deeper,” McCarthy recalled.

Once her doctor tested her for mold, McCarthy tell menounos The lightbulb went off and they finally “fixed the problem.”

“The reason you keep getting infections, your body doesn’t heal, you ooze stuff, is because you have mold in your body. You have mycotoxin poisoning,” McCarthy said her doctor told her at the time.

The Masked Singer Judge Adding, “Mold releases this toxin in dust particles and most people… people with good immune systems can handle it. People with weak immune systems, people with leaky gut, candida, I’m already fighting stuff that (can’t) fight.”

she continues tell menounos Mycotoxin poisoning and mold toxicity have the potential to be extremely detrimental to her health.

“I have a mold that causes seizures. (My doctor) said, ‘If you have this thing that crosses the blood-brain barrier, you’re going to be hospitalized with a seizure,'” McCarthy revealed. “I thought, ‘Oh, my God.'”

While McCarthy now has answers about what happened to her body, she said the road to recovery won’t be an easy one.

“I became resistant to antibiotics last year,” McCarthy told Menounos. “Mycotoxins made me resistant to antibiotics, so no wonder I was getting infections, infections, infections. All these antibiotics I was taking no longer worked for me.”

Now, mccarthy says She is undergoing a rigorous mold treatment regimen to combat the symptoms that have plagued her since 2025.

Listen to McCarthy’s full performance on Menounos”healing team” podcast on Tuesday, March 31st.