Jenny McCarthy is opening up about the continued effects of battling mold poisoning.
“I didn’t realize you could have PTSD with mold until I had PTSD from mold poisoning,” McCarthy, 54, said on the Tuesday, November 10, episode of “The Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg Show” podcast. “Anywhere I’d walk, I’d have a histamine reaction. Everywhere I’d go, I’d panic that there was mold even if there wasn’t mold in the places.”
McCarthy’s concerns about being exposed to mold again amid her recovery from poisoning even alarmed her husband, Donnie Wahlberg.
The podcast host described staying at a Las Vegas hotel with Wahlberg, 57, this past summer, where she had an apparent reaction.
“We got in really late and I just passed out and woke up, and I woke up with my eyes a little swollen and I was like, ‘There’s mold in this room.’ I literally went in hysterics. I was crying so hard and had a nervous breakdown in that room,” McCarthy explained, noting “that my husband never saw me like this, ever.”
“I can even cry about it now … when you’ve gone through 11 surgeries in 15 months, my body … I could not handle it falling apart again,” she continued, admitting that her fear of contracting mold poisoning again also made her afraid of using Uber rides, going into restaurants and boarding airplanes.
“People don’t realize that that happens and I had to work [on it],” she said of her PTSD. “I’m still working on it. I’m a lot better, but I’m not cured yet. I was determined to not let that take me down.”
McCarthy previously opened up about her two-year battle with mold and mycotoxin poisoning on the October 28 episode of her eponymous podcast.
The Masked Singer judge said that she went down “a rabbit hole of doctors, surgeries, teeth being pulled, mysterious growths popping up in places you are not expecting, implants literally falling out” before “realizing my immune system was fighting something so much bigger.”
McCarthy eventually got to the root of the issue after experiencing fatigue. Her doctor suspected mold poisoning and had her tested. The doctor apparently told her, “Jenny, you’ve got serious mold. You’ve got the type of mold that causes seizures. If this thing crosses the blood-brain barrier, I’m going to be talking to you in hospital. You’re going to start seizing.”
McCarthy said she is still recovering from the ordeal and has even been living in a tent.
“I’m still in my mold detox, you guys. I’m still in it, like, I’m knee-deep in it,” she said. “I’m in month seven of detox and I’m too paranoid to honestly live anywhere else other than a tent.”
