Jimmy Kimmel is grateful that he had then-girlfriend Sarah Silverman's support when he dealt with a harrowing health scare. "Remember when your appendix burst?" Silverman, 54, asked Kimmel, 57, on the Thursday, August 7, episode of her eponymous podcast. "Remember when your head swelled?" Kimmel, who dated the comedian from 2002 to 2009, did, in fact, remember his hospitalization at the time. "You saved my life that day. You really did," he said. "We went to the hospital, and they were not treating it.