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

12. Mickey Mantle

Via haulsofshame.com

There are numerous people who believe individuals who do things that harm their health should not be placed in a higher priority on a transplant list just because they are a celebrity, and when Mickey Mantle needed one, his number seemed to come up very quickly. He had been a longtime alcoholic, suffered from liver cancer as well as cirrhosis, and even contracted Hepatitis C. Still, even though he was relatively new on the ‘list,’ he got a liver transplant in 1995, at the age of 63. He died that same year.