Bijou Phillips: Plea for Kidney Donor

0:00It's March 26, entertainment and celebrity news. Today starts now, AI-powered and spotlight-ready. I'm Corey with the story. Bijou Phillips, the actress and ex-wife of convicted rapist Danny Masterson, is publicly pleading for a kiddie donor to save her life. The 45-year-old single mom says her health is failing fast while she waits, and she shares a 12-year-old daughter, Biana, with Masterson. Who's serving 30 years to life in prison? She's been on dialysis in Los Angeles since her first kiddie transplant from about ten years ago, started failing. Born with underdeveloped kidneys, Phillips spent her first three months in a neonatal unit on similar treatment, and now dialysis leaves her at high, risk for deadly infections. The stress for Masterson's crimes and trial likely worsened her condition, leading her to file for divorce last September and drop his last name from, their daughters. As a single parent, she's determined to stay alive for Fiona, who's all she has left

1:00in her family. Family members have been tested as donors, but none matched, and she's facing sky-high medical bills for uncovered medications that she pays out of. Pocket Experts say her three weekly dialysis sessions are grueling, lasting hours and caring constant threats like septic shock. Phillips is holding on as treatments continue, urging anyone who might be a match to step forward and give her a fighting chance to raise her brave.