Jenny McCarthy details horrifying health issue that caused ‘6 months of living hell’

Jenny McCarthy has been through six months of “living hell” after an “infected root canal” caused her severe health issues.

The 53-year-old revealed last year that she had unintentionally lost weight because she was forced to “eat soft foods only” after a failed ceramic dental implant; however, that was only the beginning of her health woes.

The Masked Singer judge had nine mouth surgeries in 2025 with no success until it was discovered that she had severe mold toxicity and mycotoxin poisoning because of her infected root canal, which “wasn’t cleaned out all the way.”

“The last time I was here, I was literally on my way to the biological dentist because I had gone through six months of living hell,” she shares in a preview clip of Maria Menounos’ Heal Squad podcast, published by Us Weekly.

Jenny noted that because her root canal wasn’t cleaned properly, she got a jawbone infection with “three of these little toxic pools hiding underneath my wisdom teeth.”

She reveals that her root cavitations “kept getting infected,” and to make matters worse, she started having “growths on my eye,” which she describes as looking like the “nastiest whitehead, puss-filled eraser top.”

“I’m like, ‘What the heck is this?’ They’re like you’re not washing your eyes enough. I’m like [expletive].” Jenny recalls.

Jenny had the growth on her eye surgically removed, only for it to return four weeks later, with an “oozing infection.” At the same time, her dental implants were rejected because of her infected mouth.

“I’m like, ‘What is going on. What is happening?’ My functional medicine doctor said, ‘OK, hold on. You’re the healthiest patient I have. We gotta go dig deeper,'” she recalls.

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Jenny reveals that once her doctor tested for mold, they finally “figured out the problem.”

“The reason why you’re having constant infections, your body won’t heal, you’re oozing things, is because you have mold. You have mycotoxin poisoning,” Jenny says her doctor told her at the time.

She adds: “Mold releases this toxin in the dust particles, and what happens is most people… with good immune systems can handle it. People with weaker immune systems, people with leaky gut, candida, things I am already fighting [can’t].”

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Jenny also reveals that the mycotoxin poisoning and mold toxicity have the possibility of being extremely detrimental to her health.

“I have a certain mold that causes seizures. [My doctor] goes, ‘If this thing that you’ve got crosses the blood-brain barrier, you’re going to be in the hospital having seizures.’ I’m like, ‘Oh, my God,'” she says.

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However, despite Jenny finally having a diagnosis, getting back to full health has not been easy for her.

“I became antibiotic-resistant last year,” she tells Maria. “The mycotoxins made me antibiotic resistant, so no wonder why infection, infection, infection. I was taking all these antibiotics that weren’t working for me anymore.”

The star is now “on a heavy-duty mold protocol” to deal with the symptoms she has been struggling with since 2025.

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Last November, Jenny opened up about her dental issues, telling People: “I’ve had nine surgeries this year, on my mouth. I had one infection that turned into another and another, and then I had these growths show up on my eyeballs.

“My teeth were falling out, implants falling out. They finally had to dig into my jawbone, chipped away, and found I had a deep bone infection. I’ve been on antibiotics for a year and have had to eat soft foods only.”