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Bijou Phillips Urgently Seeks Kidney Donor Amid Crisis

2/12/2026

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Bijou Phillips, 45, is urgently seeking a living kidney donor after her first transplant failed; she remains hospitalized at UCLA on dialysis.
Phillips has battled kidney disease since birth, and a 2017 transplant donated by a friend gave eight years of motherhood.
She is a single mother to her 11-year-old daughter Fianna, whose father, Danny Masterson, is serving a 30-year prison sentence for rape.

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Bijou Phillips, 45, is urgently seeking a living kidney donor after her first transplant failed; she remains hospitalized at UCLA on dialysis.
Phillips has battled kidney disease since birth, and a 2017 transplant donated by a friend gave eight years of motherhood.
She is a single mother to her 11-year-old daughter Fianna, whose father, Danny Masterson, is serving a 30-year prison sentence for rape.