Bijou Phillips says 'time is of the essence' as she pleads for a new kidney

Bijou Phillips needs a kidney donor and she’s asking the nationalist for help.

“I request assistance uncovering a caller kidney,” the histrion wrote successful an Instagram station Wednesday. “I’m asking arsenic a friend, a sister, an aunt and, astir importantly, a azygous parent to an unthinkable and brave daughter. I americium successful request of a kidney.”

According to her Instagram post, Phillips was calved with an underdeveloped kidney. She said she antecedently received a kidney successful 2017 “from a beloved friend” but that she has faced “many complications since,” including the BK virus. Per the National Kidney Foundation, 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 is hospitalized astatine UCLA Health and successful unchangeable information for now, TMZ reported.

Phillips, who is backmost connected dialysis portion she awaits a transplant, besides shared a nexus to a surviving donor signifier connected her Instagram for radical funny successful getting the voluntary donation process started.

“Please assistance maine find a surviving donor truthful that I tin person much clip with my daughter, family, and friends,” Phillips wrote. “Time is of the essence.”

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.