Kyle Sandilands shares grim new health update

Just days after Kyle Sandilands revealed he has to undergo surgery for a brain aneurysm, the radio star recently found another aneurysm in his chest. 

During the Kyle and Jackie O Show, the radio shock jock explained he had been discussing his options with surgeons and specialists when he was told the grim update. 

“They found another one in my chest and that’s a separate surgery and I have very bad calcium build-up in the heart where I’m likely to have a heart attack,” he shared. 

Sandilands said he has a 25 per cent chance of having a heart attack in the next five years “if I do nothing about that”.

He also revealed that the surgery for the brain aneurysm will involve drilling a large hole in his skull.

"It's in the front right hand side of my brain... they have to drill a hole through my skull the size of a drinking glass, pull that bit of skull out, and go into the brain," he explained. 

"They [will] put a titanium clip on the vein where the problem is and then they stitch me up with a plastic surgeon."

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"That will mean I have this huge scar from the forehead to top of ear and they would have to drill a hole in my skull, go into the brain and clip it off," he continued. 

On the 3rd of February, Sandilands first made his diagnosis public, saying: "I have a brain aneurysm and it requires immediate attention, brain surgery," and that he could need up to eight weeks off the air. 

He went on to explain that his brain aneurysm was “not a blockage” but rather a “puncture”.

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