Jenny McCarthy reveals mystery illness that caused oozing eye growths, rotting teeth

EntertainmentJenny McCarthy attends the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 26, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)(Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)By Brian Linder | blinder@pennlive.comPopular actress Jenny McCarthy opened up earlier this year about a health crisis that sounds like it was an incredibly brutal ordeal.According to McCarthy, 53, it all began after she had a root canal that did not heal properly. “The last time I was here, I was literally on my way to the biological dentists because I had gone through six months of living hell,” she said during an appearance on Maria Menounos’ ‘Heal Squad’ podcast. “I had an infected root canal. What wound up happening was it didn’t get cleaned out all the way.”McCarthy told Menounos that the infection spread throughout her jawbone.“I had three of these toxic pools hiding under my wisdom teeth, so we did root cavitations and it just kept getting infected,” she said. “I’m like, ‘What is happening?’ I’m on surgery, like, number eight.”McCarthy said she was eventually diagnosed with mycotoxin poisoning or toxic mold poisoning. But she went through more than the oral issues before she got to the diagnosis. “On the eyelid right here, it looked like the nastiest whitehead, pus-filled eraser top growing,” she told Menounos. McCarthy said she had surgery to remove the growth but it returned four weeks later. “Now I’m into July, oozing infection coming through my eye, my mouth is being infected, we put the implants in, the implants were rejected, and I’m like, ‘What is going on!?’” she said. McCarthy said the test for mold came after months of antibiotics. She told Menounos she is currently on a “heavy duty mold protocol” that she started in January and will run for a year. Brian Linder is the trending editor at PennLive.com. He has more than 20 years of experience working for newspapers first in South Carolina, then Daytona Beach, Florida and now in Pennsylvania. Linder spent...