Radio host Kyle Sandilands has revealed he will be forced to undergo brain surgery as he has a brain aneurysm. Pictured with wife Tegan

Radio host Kyle Sandilands has revealed he has a brain aneurysm and requires immediate emergency brain surgery, warning listeners ‘a life of cocaine abuse and partying are not the way to go’.

The top-rating KIIS FM host announced the news at the beginning of his breakfast show on Monday morning.

‘On Friday, I was told by my medical team – which sounds like I’m already very sick, that I have a brain aneurysm and it requires immediate attention, brain surgery,’ Sandilands said.

‘My doctor said if I didn’t get it checked, I would have died.’

He then cracked a joke about the show’s lower ratings in Melbourne.

‘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.’

Co-host Jackie O Henderson said: ‘Let’s think positive.’

‘That doesn’t work in real life,’ Kyle responded.

The 53-year-old radio king then explained his condition on air.

‘It’s not a blockage. 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. (It’s) like a bike tyre with a big bubble – that bubble’s the aneurysm, so it’s not blocked,’ he said.

‘It’s expanded and if it bursts, (I will become) either a vegetable, in the wheelchair, or dead.’

He revealed that his doctor had banned him from doing cocaine, having sex, masturbating, heavy lifting and becoming stressed.

His wife Tegan Kynaston, 38, who he welcomed son Otto with in 2022, ‘bursts into tears’ every time she sees him since they got the sad news, Sandilands revealed.

Sandilands was absent when the show returned on Tuesday last week, and Jackie O told listeners he had vomited on himself.

‘Apparently he’s, um, projectile… he’s vomited all over himself this morning,’ she said.

He returned on air on Wednesday and Thursday, but was away sick again on Friday.

Kyle Sandilands is pictured with co-host Jackie O

On Friday, he received a call informing him that he would need surgery. Kyle is pictured with his wife Tegan and son Otto

Daily Mail Australia now understands Sandilands was undergoing tests after an appointment with a cardiologist, who has been treating his high blood pressure.

On Friday, he received a call informing him that he would need surgery.

Sandilands said he initially sought medical attention due to persistent headaches.

‘I can be here for a week and then bang, it could be any day of the week, on the weekend,’ he said.

Sandilands will be away from the show for up to eight weeks.

‘So anyway, very bad, but it needs to be, and then I’ll have to have some time off… whether two to eight weeks,’ he said.

‘They can either do keyhole surgery, or they’ll have to cut away parts of my skull and open up my head to fix it.’

Kyle Sandilands and Tegan Kynaston at their wedding in 2023

Kyle and Jackie o are pictured in 2007. They have dominated Sydney’s airwaves for more than 20 years

It’s unclear who will fill in for Sandilands.

Just last year, Sandilands opened up about his health in an interview with Seven, sharing how becoming a dad had motivated him to make lifestyle changes.

‘For years, I just lived hard and fast and recklessly, and did whatever I wanted and wherever, and behaved however I wanted,’ he said.

‘(But) when you’ve got a child, and you’re 52 (now 53), you think, I best be careful here, there’s much more to live for.’

In 2014, obesity specialist Dr Edward Jackowski warned that Sandilands would die young because of his weight and lifestyle.

While Sandilands has long been open about his struggles with weight, he began a serious weight loss journey in 2019.

‘I’m eating healthy and dropping off weight, but it’s a slow process,’ he said.

‘I’ve lost three belt sizes and people I haven’t seen for ages are surprised when they see me, they all tell me I’ve lost weight.’

Sandilands said he had started exercising and was enjoying the benefits of a healthy meal delivery plan.

He also stopped some of his worst habits, such as drinking ‘two litres of Coca-Cola and two litres of milk every day’.

‘I was eating s**t before and I’m so stubborn that I never wanted to listen when people told me to get in shape,’ he explained.

A young Kyle Sandilands pictured with his father Peter, who died in 2016. Sandilands says he was kicked out of the home he shared with his mother Pam and stepfather David aged 15

Kyle Sandilands shortly after an aunt rescued him from living on the streets. He is pictured with the promotional vehicle he drove for Townsville radio station 4TO in his first media job

Sandilands has previously shared that he was kicked out of his family home at just 15 and spent time sleeping rough.

During this period, he survived mostly on milk and white bread, a diet that has influenced his eating habits for years.

‘I’ll still just guzzle milk out of the bottle and I’ll grab three or four bits of plain white bread with nothing on it and I’ll just eat it,’ he told Daily Mail Australia in 2018, before giving up the habit in 2019.

‘It is a bit odd. It’s definitely a throw-back from the past.’

Sandilands was on the streets for about nine months, occasionally finding shelter at a friend’s place for a party or weekend.

‘But inevitably, some stage shortly after that I’d be back in the box again,’ he said.

Help came when his aunt Jill, a nurse, came across Sandilands by chance one day and insisted he move in with her family in Townsville, about 1,300km north.

‘She just said, ‘You’re just coming. There’s no question. You’re just coming’. Inside I said thank God, but on the outside I was still saying f*** you all.’

It was in Townsville with his aunt’s encouragement that Sandilands got his first job in radio, driving a promotional vehicle for the station 4TO – the beginning of his incredible career on the airwaves.

What is a brain aneurysm?

‘A brain aneurysm — also known as a cerebral aneurysm or intracranial aneurysm — is a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain. An aneurysm often looks like a berry hanging on a stem.

Experts think brain aneurysms form and grow because blood flowing through the blood vessel puts pressure on a weak area of the vessel wall. This can increase the size of the brain aneurysm. If the brain aneurysm leaks or ruptures, it causes bleeding in the brain, known as a hemorrhagic stroke.

Most often, a ruptured brain aneurysm occurs in the space between the brain and the thin tissues covering the brain. This type of hemorrhagic stroke is called a subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Brain aneurysms are common. But most brain aneurysms aren’t serious, especially if they’re small. Most brain aneurysms don’t rupture. They usually don’t cause symptoms or cause health problems. In many cases, brain aneurysms are found during tests for other conditions.

However, a ruptured aneurysm quickly becomes life-threatening and requires medical treatment right away.

If a brain aneurysm hasn’t ruptured, treatment may be appropriate in some cases. Treatment of an unruptured brain aneurysm may prevent a rupture in the future.’

Source: Mayo Clinic