Life Is Precious

THE TALK SHOW HOST IS GRATEFUL HIS 7-YEAR-OLD SON IS DOING OK AMID HIS TERRIFYING HEALTH BATTLE.

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JIMMY KIMMEL is famous for his boyish humor and for playing pranks on guests on his popular late-night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! But the star was as serious as could be when he updated fans on his son Billy’s health on May 28 after the 7-year-old underwent open heart surgery. “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,” Jimmy wrote on Instagram alongside a sweet photo of Billy smiling from a hospital bed. “Billy, you are the toughest (and funniest) 7-year-old we know.”

It’s been a lifelong battle for the boy. In 2017, shortly after Billy’s birth, Jimmy revealed he had been born with tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia. Since then, it’s been an emotional journey for the comedian and his wife of 10 years, Molly McNearney