Jimmy Kimmel’s Son Undergoes His Third Open-Heart Surgery

Jimmy Kimmel’s 7-year-old son, Billy, successfully underwent his third open-heart surgery over the weekend, the late-night host has revealed.

Kimmel shared the news in an Instagram post on Monday, writing, “This weekend, our boy Billy had his third (of three, we hope) open heart surgery. We went into this experience with a lot of optimism and nearly as much fear and came out with a new valve inside a happy, healthy kid.” His message was accompanied by a photo of a smiling Billy in a hospital bed.

Billy, whom Kimmel shares with his wife Molly McNearney, was born with a congenital heart disease in 2017. A month after his son’s birth, the host returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! with an emotional monologue in which he revealed that Billy’s official diagnosis was “tetralogy of fallot with pulmonary atresia,” meaning his pulmonary valve was blocked and there was a hole in his heart.

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