Bijou Phillips: Urgent Kidney Donor Needed

0:00From the Daily News Now Network, this is Corey with the story with entertainment and celebrity news today. Actress Biju Phillips is in a critical fight for her life, urgently searching for a kidney donor. The almost famous star revealed she's hanging on by a thread after her first transplant from almost 10 years ago started failing. Now on dialysis in Los Angeles, she says her condition could worsen dramatically in just days without help. dialysis keeps her going for now, but is no long-term fix and raises her risk of serious infections. As the daughter of late mamas and the Papa singer John Phillips, she shares her story openly, stressing how vital a new donor is to her survival. She's reaching out personally as a friend, sister, aunt, and especially a single mom to her brave young daughter Fianna, whom she shares with. ex-husband Danny Masterson, her emotional social media post holding her daughter has pulled at heartstrings and spark calls for potential matches. Her plea echo stories of other celebrities who've beaten similar odds through transplants.

1:01Selena Gomez got a kidney from friend Francia Raeisa after Lupus damaged hers, while Sarah Highland received two, one from her dad and one from her. Brother, George Lopez's ex-wife donated to him back in 2005, Natalie Cole got one from a fan in 2009, and Lucy Davis had her moms. Kidney saved her in 1997. These successes offer hope as Bejo's search presses on.