The “Masked Singer” panelist revealed that she went through “six months of living hell” after an infected root canal led to multiple surgeries and an unexpected diagnosis.

Jenny McCarthy reveals health struggles: ‘Oozing’ eye growths, jaw infection from mold exposure

The "Masked Singer" panelist revealed that she went through "six months of living hell" after an infected root canal led to multiple surgeries and an unexpected diagnosis.

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March 31, 2026 1:14 p.m. ET

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Jenny McCarthy is sharing the unexpected health ailment that led her to develop a "toxic" jaw infection and "oozing" eye growths.

The *Masked Singer** *panelist, 53, revealed in a clip from an upcoming episode of Maria Menounos' *Heal Squad* podcast that she was diagnosed with mycotoxin poisoning, a.k.a mold toxicity, after undergoing multiple surgeries to treat her symptoms.

"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," McCarthy began. "I had an infected root canal. What wound up happening was it didn't get cleaned out all the way."

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A few months later, the untreated infection spread to 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."

But that wasn't her only symptom. "I started growing these growths on my eye, Maria," McCarthy said, touching her lower eyelid. "On the eyelid right here, it looked like the nastiest whitehead, pus-filled eraser top growing on my [lower lash line]."

She continued, "I'm like, 'What the heck is this?' They're like, 'You're not washing your eyes enough.' I'm like, 'Bulls---.'"

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McCarthy had the eye growth surgically removed only for it to reappear a month later.

"Four weeks later, it grew back. Four weeks later, another one grew back," she said. "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!?'"

It was then that her medical team went in a different direction. "My functional medicine doctor said, 'Okay, hold on. You're the healthiest patient I have. We gotta go dig deeper,'" she said. "She goes, 'I'm gonna test you for mold.'"

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Which led to her eventual diagnosis. "The reason why you're having constant infections, your body won't heal, you're oozing things is because you have mold," McCarthy said. "You have mycotoxin poisoning."

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While she noted that "people with good immune systems can handle" mold exposure, she explained that "people with weaker immune systems, people with leaky gut, candida, all these things that I'm already fighting" can struggle with it.

"I have a certain mold that causes seizures," McCarthy said. "[The doctor] goes, 'If this thing that you've got crosses the blood-brain barrier, you're gonna be in the hospital having seizures. I'm like, 'Oh my God.'"

Even with her diagnosis, McCarthy's recovery hasn't been easy. "I became antibiotic resistant last year," she said. "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."

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