Jimmy Kimmel Shares Update connected Son Billy 5 Years After Heart Surgery

Jimmy Kimmel continues to grant the squad that saved his son's life.

Five years after Billy underwent 2 lifesaving bosom surgeries, the precocious nighttime big shared a saccharine update connected however helium and wife Molly McNearny's son is doing today. 

"He's doing great. He's a precise comic kid," Kimmel told E! News connected Oct. 8 astatine the Children's Hospital Los Angeles honoring Panda Express and Kristin and Jeff Worthe 2022 Gala. "He loves Spiderman, jumping connected my caput and doing each the things we archer him not to do."

Billy, who was diagnosed with the rare congenital bosom defect tetralogy of Fallot aft his birth, is thriving present acknowledgment to the doctors and nurses who cared for him arsenic a baby. "They fixed his heart," the 54-year-old said. "The bosom is simply a ace important portion of the body...They fixed them up existent good, truthful we're precise grateful."

However, Billy isn't afloat successful the wide conscionable yet. "He inactive needs 1 open-heart surgery, but he's doing great," Jimmy told E!. "I tried to explicate the bosom country to him due to the fact that helium has a spot of scar down the halfway of his chest, and helium has astir nary interest."