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Jenny McCarthy recently unlocked the mystery behind her unsettling health issues.
Months after revealing a distressing illness marked by eye growths and tooth loss, the actress shared the root cause of her symptoms on Maria Menounos’ podcast, “Heal Squad.”
The 53-year-old traced her battle with severe mycotoxin poisoning and mold toxicity back to an improperly treated root canal she had at the age of 20.
On Tuesday, McCarthy elaborated that an infection in her jawbone had developed from “three small toxic pools concealed beneath [her] wisdom teeth.”
“Infection lingered there, with a bone graft placed over it, allowing the problem to quietly fester in my bone,” she explained.
Despite having multiple oral surgeries removing her teeth, McCarthy “just kept getting infected.”
Her remaining symptoms included “awful” insomnia and leg cramps that were so intense she’d “wake up crying.”
The “Masked Singer” judge went on to develop growths on her eye with “little lesions” that “looked like the nastiest whitehead pus-filled eraser top.”
She said as much in a November 2025 People interview.
“I had one infection that turned into another and another, and then I had these growths show up on my eyeballs,” McCarthy told the outlet last year. “My teeth were falling out, implants falling out.”
The ex-“View” co-host clarified at the time that she’d undergone nine surgeries and been “on antibiotics for a year” and “eating soft foods only.”
McCarthy quipped, “People should actually feel a little sorry for me!”
She speculated that she was finally “past the storm.”
McCarthy gave a treatment update on Tuesday, saying she was three months into a “heavy-duty mold protocol” that will “probably” last one year.
The former Playboy model, who is also taking “like, a hundred supplements,” acknowledged that she still has “a long way to go.”