20 celebrities you didn’t know have received an organ transplant (With Pictures)

17. Natalie Cole

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The daughter of the legendary jazz crooner Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole once struggled with a heroin addiction. She was also addicted to cocaine and had been trying to kick the habit for years. During her drug use, she contracted Hepatitis C and then went through a lengthy treatment process that managed to be successful in curing over 80 percent of the disease. However, it took a toll on her kidneys. She found a hero in a former nurse of hers whose niece had just passed away. She offered Natalie Cole a kidney and it turned out to be a match.