Renowned Australian shock jock Kyle Sandilands has announced live-on-air that he will undergo immediate surgery for a brain aneurysm.
The 53-year-old announced on his radio show this morning, following an unannounced absence on Friday, that he had been diagnosed with the condition.
The host of the popular KIIS FM show, alongside co-host Jackie O Henderson, attributed the discovery to a period of persistent headaches he had been suffering.
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Following the discovery, he announced that his medical team said that he needed ‘immediate’ brain surgery.
While showing team members scans of his brain, he pointed out the brain aneurysm.
“If that bursts, I die.”
Although Sandilands didn’t specify when the surgery would take place, he did make it clear that he would be absent from the radio show for 8-weeks following the procedure.
Providing further detail on the aneurysm, Sandilands described it as “not a blockage”, but a “puncture”.
“It’s like, imagine your blood vessel is the garden hose, and the garden hose is weak and it blisters out like a big bubble, you know, like a puncture in it, like a bike tire with a big bubble that bubbles the aneurysm, so it’s not blocked,” he said.
The diagnosis comes only months after his co-host Jackie O Henderson announced her own medical struggles, stating she was in recovery from a painkiller addiction.