Amy Grant's Daughter Donates Kidney to Lifelong Best Friend

After learning she was a match, Christian singer Amy Grant’s oldest daughter donated a kidney Tuesday to her best friend.

Gloria Mills "Millie" Chapman, Grant’s daughter with ex-husband Gary Chapman, and her friend Kathryn Dudley were both out of surgery and doing well, Gary Chapman wrote on Facebook Tuesday afternoon. "She'll be hurting for a while but healing is underway."

Dudley has battled focal segmental glomerulosclerosis since she was 13 and had been on the transplant list since 2014.

“The parts of the kidneys, the tubes, they scar,” Dudley told WKRN Nashville. “So I basically just kind of have little rocks for kidneys. They don’t work.”

Dudley shared the news of her kidney failure over text with Chapman, who immediately texted, “Ok, well take mine, I have two, you need one,” WKRN reported. The two soon found out that they had the same blood type, then that Chapman was a match.

Jenny Gill, Chapman's stepsister, wrote on Facebook that her sister’s action was an “act of true love.”

Grant has been at the hospital with her daughter and her team posted on Facebook they were proud of Chapman's “selfless act of friendship.”

“She’ll forever be a part of me,” Dudley told WKRN.

If recovery goes well, Chapman was scheduled to be released on Thursday and Dudley may go home Friday, WKRN said.

There are some risks to donating a kidney, but that most who do so continue to live healthy and normal lives. The average wait time for an organ transplant is three to five years.

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