{"id":187402,"date":"2025-08-15T14:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/brandi-glanville-on-mental-health-financial-issues-amid-face-struggles\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:56:47","slug":"brandi-glanville-on-mental-health-financial-issues-amid-face-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/brandi-glanville-on-mental-health-financial-issues-amid-face-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandi Glanville on Mental Health, Financial Issues Amid Face Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/brandi-glanville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brandi Glanville<\/strong><\/a> hasn\u2019t felt \u201cnormal\u201d in two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never felt suicidal before, [but earlier this summer], I didn\u2019t want to be here,\u201d Glanville, 52, tells <em>Us Weekly<\/em> in a new exclusive interview. \u201cAnd if it wasn\u2019t for my kids, I don\u2019t know that I would be here.\u201d (Glanville shares sons Mason and Jake with ex-husband <strong>Eddie Cibrian<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>Years after her initial departure from <em>The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills<\/em>, Glanville was back at the top of her reality TV game when she signed on for the planned fourth season of <em>The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip<\/em> in Morocco in early 2023. She had just won over audiences again on<em> The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club<\/em> and season 1 of <em>The Traitors<\/em>, but things took a turn when she was accused of sexual misconduct by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/caroline-manzo-is-suing-bravo-over-brandi-glanville-incident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>RHUGT<\/em> costar <strong>Caroline Manzo<\/strong><\/a>. (In court documents related to the incident, an executive producer stated that Manzo felt \u201cdisrespected\u201d by Glanville but claimed Glanville did not \u201csexually violate\u201d Manzo.)<\/p>\n<p>When she returned home from Morocco, Glanville slipped into a depression about the controversy and subsequently discovered she had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/brandi-glanville-describes-feeling-parasite-move-around-in-her-face\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contracted a parasite<\/a> while filming.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article\">\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-body\/news\/everything-brandi-glanville-has-said-about-her-facial-disfigurement\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Everything Brandi Glanville Has Said About Her Facial Disfigurement<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tBrandi Glanville has had a difficult two years due dealing with a mysterious medical condition that has caused facial disfigurement. In July 2024, Glanville first opened up about her health issues, noting that she wanted to sue Bravo because of it. \u201cThis stress has ruined my health. I have uncontrollable stress induced angio-edema I haven\u2019t [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAlmost immediately upon landing, my phone started blowing up about these articles that were incorrect and not true about what happened in Morocco with Caroline, and I immediately took on a ton of anxiety,\u201d she tells <em>Us<\/em>. \u201cAnd I was just trying to get my head around what was happening and why it was happening. I was on the couch in a fetal position for four months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Glanville attempted to socialize again, she started noticing \u201ccrazy lumps\u201d in her face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy face started, like, moving around and doing things. I started to lose my eyesight in my left eye. It\u2019s insane,\u201d she says. \u201cAt first, my face was blowing up and getting really swollen. Then it started sinking in, and I felt like something was just eating me from the inside. I\u2019m like, \u2018It\u2019s eating my flesh.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4071513\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.142857142857%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Brandi Glanville.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Us Weekly<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Glanville\u2019s most extreme symptoms over the last two years also include gray spots on her \u201csunken-in\u201d face, fluid that comes out of her left ear or drains into her mouth and extreme headaches.<\/p>\n<p>Glanville has seen 21 doctors, paying for several out of pocket when she couldn\u2019t get answers from providers within her insurance. \u201cThey didn\u2019t believe me,\u201d she says. \u201cMy insurance was like, \u2018Nothing\u2019s wrong with you. It\u2019s just inflammation and old filler.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glanville has spent at least $130,000 on medical bills and is struggling financially.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m paying the minimum on my credit cards. I\u2019ve exhausted my savings. At my age, I feel like such a loser in a way, because I was taking care of everything,\u201d she says. \u201cI was together. I had great credit. Now I\u2019m scared about every little thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging that \u201cmedical bills are the No. 1 cause of bankruptcy,\u201d Glanville has started working with <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelmstrauss.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Rachel Strauss<\/strong><\/a>, a healthcare strategist, known as the PBM Princess.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Rachel Strauss is Helping Brandi Glanville with Her Medical Financial Stress\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/53VYfTpQfaQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere it does fall on her responsibility is working with the hospitals she saw to review what was billed and making sure it was billed properly. There are certain things that were truly emergencies that doctors will validate, and [we can get] those reduced however we can,\u201d Strauss tells <em>Us.<\/em> \u201cOnce we negotiate the service fees, we\u2019ll work on a payment plan so that Brandi can live and have a roof over her head and be able to have food and everything that you need to sustain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the financial strain caused by all the appointments, Strauss notes that it\u2019s important Glanville advocated for herself when she believed the doctors within her insurance plan weren\u2019t listening to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that she has a definitive diagnosis, she\u2019s able to go back, and that\u2019s where she can start advocating financially,\u201d she says. \u201cThere was something wrong, and that\u2019s where we have to go back and make sure that insurance understands that, because that is why she went out of network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glanville has also started new treatments with<a href=\"https:\/\/michaelrscomamd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>Dr. Michael R. Scoma<\/strong><\/a>, an infectious disease specialist who reached out to her via X. One day before her visit with <em>Us<\/em>, she began Dr. Scoma\u2019s multiphase treatment plan, which kicks off with several weeks of intravenous antibiotics via a PICC line to treat her longstanding infection and its secondary effects.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4071520\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:133.28571428571%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4071520 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Brandi Glanville\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=300&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=400&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=700&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=800&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=900&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=1600&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi-and-Doc.jpeg?w=2400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Brandi Glanville and Dr. Michael Scoma<\/span> <span class=\"credit\"\/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe can expect to see meaningful progress within the next few weeks,\u201d Dr. Scoma tells <em>Us<\/em>. \u201cAnd I do believe Brandi can make a full recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling herself a \u201chopeful wreck,\u201d Glanville says she wants to get her life back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was sleeping until 5 p.m. I couldn\u2019t get out of bed. Everything ached \u2014 at one point, I couldn\u2019t move my neck. I couldn\u2019t get out of bed for four hours. And I\u2019m just like, \u2018This is not an existence,\u2019\u201d she tells Us. \u201cI stay in this house every day. I\u2019m paying crazy amounts of rent. I\u2019m worrying about money all day long. I have brain fog. I get one thing done a day, and I\u2019m just frazzled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, when she hit a low, she called her mom for support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go, \u2018Mom, I know you have Grandma. I know you have Dad. I know you have your plate full, but I need you to come,\u2019\u201d Glanville recalls. \u201cAnd so she, like, dropped everything and came for a couple days. I colored her hair, and we had girl time.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article\">\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/pictures\/former-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-stars-where-are-they-now\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Former \u2018Real Housewives of Beverly Hills\u2019 Stars: Where Are They Now? <\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tWhile some Real Housewives of Beverly Hills\u00a0stars have been a part of the Bravo hit since season 1 \u2014 looking at you, Kyle Richards \u2014 others have proved that diamonds aren\u2019t forever. The sixth installment in the Real Housewives franchise was announced in March 2010 and aired its first season seven months later. At the [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That pampering also included the now-viral clip of Glanville <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/brandi-glanville-burns-face-after-using-nair-against-parasite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">putting Nair on her face.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just going down every rabbit hole, and my face loved exfoliation. It was like, \u2018OK, I\u2019m gonna get whatever this is out.\u2019 So I would exfoliate, like, five times a day, and I wouldn\u2019t even put moisturizer on and it was back to oily \u2014 and I never had oily skin,\u201d she tells <em>Us<\/em>. \u201cIf Nair dissolves hair, maybe, it\u2019ll dissolve whatever\u2019s in my skin. And my mom\u2019s like, \u2018You do your Brandi.\u2019 Like, when I was little, I used Comet on my teeth because I wanted white teeth. That\u2019s just my idea. I\u2019m a do-it-yourselfer. It doesn\u2019t always work out. But honestly, she put tea bags on my skin after to make it, like, cool down, and they were brown, and so it looked like my face was scorched when really it was just a little bit pink.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:133.3%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4071524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Brandi Glanville\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=400&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=600&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=700&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=800&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=1600&amp;quality=78&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Brandi--rotated.jpeg?w=2400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Following treatments from Dr. Scoma, however, Glanville hopes to be back to \u201cdancing on tables and [drinking] sake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I just want to leave my house,\u201d she says again. \u201cI\u2019m in Groundhog Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-body\/news\/brandi-glanville-on-mental-health-financial-issues-amid-face-struggles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandi Glanville hasn\u2019t felt \u201cnormal\u201d in two years. \u201cI\u2019ve never felt suicidal before, [but earlier this summer], I didn\u2019t want to be here,\u201d Glanville, 52, tells Us Weekly in a new exclusive interview. \u201cAnd if it wasn\u2019t for my kids, I don\u2019t know that I would be here.\u201d (Glanville shares sons Mason and Jake with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-187402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}