Bijou Phillips 'beyond grateful' for second kidney transplant months after public plea

Bijou Phillips is recovering from a caller kidney transplant, feeling thankful for everyone progressive successful the procedure.

The “Almost Famous” actor-singer, 46, shared a glimpse of her betterment connected Tuesday, posting photos of herself successful a infirmary furniture connected Instagram. Phillips said she manged to find a “perfect match” of a donor successful the months since her nationalist plea successful February. Earlier this twelvemonth she declared connected Instagram, “I americium successful request of a kidney,” and stressed the urgency of locating a compatible donor.

“I americium beyond beyond grateful to everyone who rushed into assistance me,” she wrote successful her caption,”get checked to donate, you are each hero’s!”

In her Tuesday post, Phillips besides elaborate her process and the attraction she received from UCLA Health staff, specifically her “lifesaver” Dr. Jeffrey L. Veale.

Phillips was hospitalized successful February. In her societal media plea astatine the time, Phillips said she was calved with an underdeveloped kidney. She antecedently received a kidney successful 2017 “from a beloved friend” but has faced “many complications since,” including the BK virus, she said astatine the time. National Kidney Foundation says the BK microorganism is communal and usually inactive, but it tin “wake up” erstwhile a person’s immune strategy is compromised — similar aft an organ transplant — and impact the occurrence of the transplant. Phillips was placed backmost connected dialysis arsenic she awaited a transplant.

In February, Phillips told followers the replacement was indispensable truthful “I tin person much clip with my daughter, household and friends.” On Tuesday, she shared photos of her friends and family, and a video of a loved 1 accompanying her arsenic she walks done the hospital.

Phillips shares a girl with ex-husband Danny Masterson. Fianna Francis was calved successful 2014.

Masterson was convicted successful 2023 of raping 2 erstwhile members of the Church of Scientology and was sentenced to 30 years to beingness successful prison. He filed a petition to overturn the condemnation past year. Phillips filed to divorcement the “That ’70s Show” prima aft his sentencing.

Times unit writer Tracy Brown contributed to this report.