Kyle Sandilands reveals shock health diagnosis live on air ahead of emergency surgery
Sydney radio king Kyle Sandilands, 53, has revealed he will undergo emergency brain surgery.
“On Friday, I was told by my medical team, which sounds like I’m already very sick - to have a medical team - that I have a brain aneurysm and it requires immediate attention, brain surgery,” Sandilands told listeners on Monday morning.
“If you just tuned in to us after all these years, lap it up. And if you’re in Melbourne ... you’re coming to the party too late. You may get your wish. I may be dead.”
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“If that bursts, I die instantly.”
Sandilands expects to take eight weeks off from his hit show, The Kyle and Jackie O Show.
“My wife, every time I look at her, her eyes well up with tears. She is already counting down the days.”
“The facts are a life of cocaine abuse and partying are not the way to go,” he said.
Sandilands has been a team alongside Jackie “O” Henderson for the past 20 years.
He is also a judge on Australian Idol, on Seven.
More to come ...
Originally published on Sunrise
