Brandi Glanville on Mental Health, Financial Issues Amid Face Struggles

Brandi Glanville He has not felt «normal» in two years.

«I had never felt suicidal before (but earlier this summer), I didn’t want to be here,» says Glanville, 52. Us Weekly In a new exclusive interview. «And if it weren’t for my children, I don’t know if I would be here.» (Glanville shares Mason and Jake children with ex husband Eddie Cibrian.

Years after his initial game of Beverly Hills’ real housewivesGlanville returned to the top of his reality show game when he signed for the fourth planned season of The true trip of the girls of the housewives in Morocco in early 2023. He had just recovered the public again in The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club And season 1 of The traitorsBut things took a turn when she was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by Rhugt co-star Caroline Manzo. (In judicial documents related to the incident, an executive producer declared that Manzo felt «disrespected» by Glanville, but said that Glanville did not «sexually raped» Manzo).

When he returned home from Morocco, Glanville got into a depression on the controversy and subsequently discovered that he had contracted a parasite while filming.

«Almost immediately after landing, my phone began to explode about these articles that were incorrect and not true about what happened in Morocco with Caroline, and immediately took a ton of anxiety,» he tells him Us. «And I was just trying to understand what was happening and why it was happening. I was on the couch in a fetal position for four months.»

When Glanville tried to socialize again, he began to notice «crazy packages» on his face.

«My face began, like, moving and doing things. I started losing my eyes in my left eye. It’s crazy,» she says. «At first, my face exploded and was really swollen. Then he started sinking, and I felt that something was eating me from inside. I am like, ‘he is eating my flesh’.»

The most extreme symptoms of Glanville in the last two years also include gray spots on their «sunk» face, a liquid that comes out of its left ear or drains in its mouth and extreme headaches.

Glanville has seen 21 doctors, paying several of his pocket when he could not get suppliers responses within his insurance. «They didn’t believe me,» she says. «My insurance was like, ‘nothing happens to you. It’s just inflammation and old filling’.»

Glanville has spent at least $ 130,000 on medical invoices and is fighting financially.

«I am paying the minimum on my credit cards. I have exhausted my savings. At my age, I feel like a loser in a way, because I was taking care of everything,» he says. «I was together. I had great credit. Now I’m afraid of every little thing.»

Recognizing that «medical invoices are the number 1 bankruptcy cause», Glanville has begun to work Rachel StraussA medical care strategist, known as Princess PBM.

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«Where he falls on his responsibility is to work with the hospitals he saw to review what was billed and make sure that he was properly billed. There are certain things that were really emergencies that doctors will validate and (we can obtain) that are reduced as we can,» says Strauss. Us. «Once we negotiate the service rates, we will work on a payment plan so that Brandi can live and have a roof on the head and be able to have food and everything you need to maintain.»

Despite the financial tension caused by all appointments, Strauss points out that it is important that Glanville advocated himself when he believed that doctors within their insurance plan were not listening to it.

«Now that it has a definitive diagnosis, it can return, and that is where it can begin to advocate financially,» she says. «There was something wrong, and that is where we have to return and make sure that insurance understands that, because that is why it left the network.»

Glanville has also started new treatments with Dr. Michael R. Scomaan infectious disease specialist who approached her through X. One day before his visit with UsDr. Scoma’s multi -phase treatment plan began, which begins with several weeks of intravenous antibiotics through a PICC line to treat its long data infection and side effects.

«We can expect to see significant progress in the coming weeks,» says Dr. Scoma. Us. «And I think Brandi can recover completely.»

Calling herself a «hopeful shipwreck,» Glanville says he wants to recover his life.

«I was sleeping until 5 pm I couldn’t get out of bed. Everything hurt, at one time, I couldn’t move my neck. I couldn’t get out of bed for four hours. And I say, ‘this is not an existence,» he tells us. «I stay in this house every day. I am paying crazy rental amounts. I’m worried about money all day. I have brain fog. I do one thing a day, and I’m just exhausted.»

Last week, when he reached a bass, he called his mother to obtain support.

«I go, mom, I know you have grandmother. I know you have dad. I know you have your plate full, but I need you to come,» Glanville recalls. «And so she, as, left everything and came for a couple of days. Color her hair and we had a girl’s time.»

That pamper also included the now viral clip of Glanville putting Nair on his face.

«I was simply going down for every horn of rabbits, and my face loved the exfoliation. It was like, ‘ok, I will get whatever this is out.’ Us. «If Nair dissolves my hair, maybe, whatever is in my skin. And my mother says: ‘You do your brandi.’ As, when I was little, I used commit in my teeth because I wanted white teeth.

However, after the treatments of Dr. Scoma, Glanville hopes to return to «dance in tables and (drink)».

«No, I just want to get out of my house,» he says again. «I am on the day of the Marmota.»

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