Brandi Glanville hasn't felt “regular” in two years.
“I've by no means felt suicidal earlier than, [but earlier this summer], I didn't wish to be right here,” Glanville, 52, tells Us Weekly in a brand new unique interview. “And if it wasn't for my youngsters, I don't know that I'd be right here.” (Glanville shares sons Mason and Jake with ex-husband Eddie Cibrian.)
Years after her preliminary departure from The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills, Glanville was again on the high of her actuality TV recreation when she signed on for the deliberate fourth season of The Actual Housewives Final Women Journey in Morocco in early 2023. She had simply received over audiences once more on The Actual Housewives Final Women Journey: Ex-Wives Membership and season 1 of The Traitors, however issues took a flip when she was accused of sexual misconduct by RHUGT costar Caroline Manzo. (In court docket paperwork associated to the incident, an government producer acknowledged that Manzo felt “disrespected” by Glanville however claimed Glanville didn't “sexually violate” Manzo.)
When she returned dwelling from Morocco, Glanville slipped right into a despair concerning the controversy and subsequently found she had contracted a parasite whereas filming.
“Nearly instantly upon touchdown, my telephone began blowing up about these articles that had been incorrect and never true about what occurred in Morocco with Caroline, and I instantly took on a ton of tension,” she tells Us. “And I used to be simply making an attempt to get my head round what was taking place and why it was taking place. I used to be on the sofa in a fetal place for 4 months.”
When Glanville tried to socialize once more, she began noticing “loopy lumps” in her face.
“My face began, like, transferring round and doing issues. I began to lose my eyesight in my left eye. It's insane,” she says. “At first, my face was blowing up and getting actually swollen. Then it began sinking in, and I felt like one thing was simply consuming me from the within. I'm like, ‘It's consuming my flesh.'”
Brandi Glanville. Us Weekly
Glanville's most excessive signs over the past two years additionally embody grey spots on her “sunken-in” face, fluid that comes out of her left ear or drains into her mouth and excessive complications.
Glanville has seen 21 docs, paying for a number of out of pocket when she couldn't get solutions from suppliers inside her insurance coverage. “They didn't imagine me,” she says. “My insurance coverage was like, ‘Nothing's incorrect with you. It's simply irritation and previous filler.'”
Glanville has spent no less than $130,000 on medical payments and is struggling financially.
“I'm paying the minimal on my bank cards. I've exhausted my financial savings. At my age, I really feel like such a loser in a manner, as a result of I used to be taking good care of every part,” she says. “I used to be collectively. I had nice credit score. Now I'm scared about each little factor.”
Acknowledging that “medical payments are the No. 1 explanation for chapter,” Glanville has began working with Rachel Strauss, a healthcare strategist, often called the PBM Princess.
“The place it does fall on her duty is working with the hospitals she noticed to assessment what was billed and ensuring it was billed correctly. There are specific issues that had been really emergencies that docs will validate, and [we can get] these lowered nevertheless we are able to,” Strauss tells Us. “As soon as we negotiate the service charges, we'll work on a fee plan in order that Brandi can reside and have a roof over her head and be capable of have meals and every part that you should maintain.”
Regardless of the monetary pressure brought on by all of the appointments, Strauss notes that it's vital Glanville advocated for herself when she believed the docs inside her insurance coverage plan weren't listening to her.
“Now that she has a definitive analysis, she's in a position to return, and that's the place she will be able to begin advocating financially,” she says. “There was one thing incorrect, and that's the place we now have to return and ensure that insurance coverage understands that, as a result of that's the reason she went out of community.”
Glanville has additionally began new remedies with Dr. Michael R. Scoma, an infectious illness specialist who reached out to her by way of X. Sooner or later earlier than her go to with Us, she started Dr. Scoma's multiphase therapy plan, which kicks off with a number of weeks of intravenous antibiotics by way of a PICC line to deal with her longstanding an infection and its secondary results.
Brandi Glanville and Dr. Michael Scoma
“We will count on to see significant progress inside the subsequent few weeks,” Dr. Scoma tells Us. “And I do imagine Brandi could make a full restoration.”
Calling herself a “hopeful wreck,” Glanville says she needs to get her life again.
“I used to be sleeping till 5 p.m. I couldn't get off the bed. Every little thing ached — at one level, I couldn't transfer my neck. I couldn't get off the bed for 4 hours. And I'm identical to, ‘This isn't an existence,'” she tells Us. “I keep on this home on daily basis. I'm paying loopy quantities of lease. I'm worrying about cash all day lengthy. I've mind fog. I get one factor carried out a day, and I'm simply frazzled.”
Simply final week, when she hit a low, she referred to as her mother for assist.
“I am going, ‘Mother, I do know you may have Grandma. I do know you may have Dad. I do know you may have your plate full, however I want you to return,'” Glanville remembers. “And so she, like, dropped every part and got here for a pair days. I coloured her hair, and we had lady time.”
That pampering additionally included the now-viral clip of Glanville placing Nair on her face.
“I used to be simply happening each rabbit gap, and my face liked exfoliation. It was like, ‘OK, I'm gonna get no matter that is out.' So I'd exfoliate, like, 5 instances a day, and I wouldn't even put moisturizer on and it was again to oily — and I by no means had oily pores and skin,” she tells Us. “If Nair dissolves hair, perhaps, it'll dissolve no matter's in my pores and skin. And my mother's like, ‘You do your Brandi.' Like, after I was little, I used Comet on my enamel as a result of I needed white enamel. That's simply my concept. I'm a do-it-yourselfer. It doesn't all the time work out. However actually, she put tea luggage on my pores and skin after to make it, like, calm down, and so they had been brown, and so it appeared like my face was scorched when actually it was just a bit bit pink.”
Following remedies from Dr. Scoma, nevertheless, Glanville hopes to be again to “dancing on tables and [drinking] sake.”
“No, I simply wish to go away my home,” she says once more. “I'm in Groundhog Day.”
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