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The bird of prey fumbled in the corner of glass windows as Kimmel attempted to usher it toward a window before the hawk flew across the kitchen, at which point both parents asked Billy to go upstairs before the bird eventually flew out the sliding glass door.

\"Welcome home Billy,\" his mom said as he looked on from the staircase.

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PHOTO: TV host Jimmy Kimmel and wife screenwriter Molly McNearney arrive for the 75th Emmy Awards at the Peacock Theatre at L.A. Live in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2024.
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Kimmel also recalled that on the day of Billy's surgery, his wife \"saw a mourning dove -- and is apparently an omen of death and she was very freaked out by it,\" he said. \"We get home from the hospital and the hawk flies in and kills the mourning dove, kills the omen of death.\"

Kimmel garnered a lot of attention in 2017 when he tearfully recounted on \"Jimmy Kimmel Live\" the terrifying moment he learned about his son's heart defect.

\"They did an echocardiogram, which is a sonogram of the heart, and found that Billy was born with a heart disease,\" Kimmel said on-air at the time.

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PHOTO: Jimmy Kimmel holds his son Billy Kimmel during the LA Bowl game between Washington State Cougars and Fresno State Bulldogs at SoFi Stadium on Dec. 17, 2022 in Los Angeles.
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Doctors diagnosed Billy's condition as Tetralogy of Fallot and, at just 3 days old, he had open heart surgery to repair it.

\"The pulmonary valve was completely blocked, and he has a hole in the wall between the left and right sides of his heart,\" Kimmel said of the condition at the time.

Seven months later, after a second heart surgery, when Kimmel gave the world an update on his son's health, he took the opportunity to speak out on the fight for affordable health care.

\"No parent should ever have to decide if they can afford to save their child's life,\" Kimmel said on his show. \"It just shouldn't happen. Not here.\"

Earlier this week, in his post on Instagram, Kimmel wrote, \"We went into this experience with a lot of optimism and nearly as much fear and came out with a new valve inside a happy, healthy kid.\"

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