Health · Mental Health · 5 hrs ago
Jenny McCarthy says mold poisoning has led her to sleep in a tent
Jenny McCarthy says she is sleeping in a tent in her backyard while recovering from mold poisoning.
The actor and TV personality says she was diagnosed last December after spending time in an old dressing room with an aging air-conditioning unit.
She says she developed several health problems, including rashes, swelling, insomnia and eyelid growths that needed surgery.
McCarthy says her husband, Donnie Wahlberg, paid for mold removal at their home, but she is still too worried to sleep indoors.
She says she is in the seventh month of detox and feels distressed by the possibility of mold in places around her.
Her account describes how the illness has affected her daily life, though the material provided does not say what treatment comes next.
Jenny McCarthy says she is sleeping in a tent while detoxing after being diagnosed with mold poisoning.
She says she was exposed to mold in an old dressing room with an air-conditioning unit she believes was not properly cleaned.
McCarthy has described symptoms including rashes, swelling, insomnia, food allergies and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.
She says she and her husband, Donnie Wahlberg, paid tens of thousands of dollars for mold remediation at their home.
McCarthy says she remains too paranoid to sleep indoors and is in the seventh month of detox.
- Who
- Jenny McCarthy, an actress and television personality.
- What
- She says mold poisoning has led her to sleep in a tent while detoxing.
- When
- She says she was diagnosed last December and is now in the seventh month of detox.
- Where
- In a tent apparently set up in her backyard in California.
- Why
- McCarthy says she is too paranoid to sleep indoors after mold poisoning, which she attributes to time spent in an old dressing room.
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McCarthy says she was diagnosed with mold poisoning.
McCarthy says she is still detoxing and sleeping in a tent because she is too paranoid to sleep indoors.
- Diagnosis
- Mold poisoning, diagnosed last December, according to McCarthy
- Detox
- Month seven
- Accommodation
- A tent apparently set up in her backyard
- Husband
- Donnie Wahlberg
- Reported exposure site
- An old dressing room with air conditioning dating, she said, from around 1950
What people are saying
I'm still in the traumatic part. I'm not even in the "post" part yet, because I feel like now everything is mold.
I don't have to worry about rain in California, but I do worry about chemtrails and also sprinklers.
That's where this journey has brought me. After all those surgeries, after being diagnosed with mycotoxin poisoning, I feel a little bit sometimes crazy and like the walls are caving in and paranoid. It's really, really hard.