Perez Hilton‘s sister, Barbara Lavandeira, is recalling what happened the day her brother had his medical emergency which was live streamed on TikTok.
If you have not seen the news, the 48-year-old gossip blogger and media personality was hospitalized in the evening hours of Tuesday (August 4) after appearing to harm himself in a live stream video.
Warning: this interview contains graphic depictions
“August 4th will forever be one of the darkest days my family and I have ever experienced,” Barbara told Page Six.
“That afternoon, Mario was in his bedroom with the door closed and locked, which wasn’t like him. His door was almost always open,” she continued, referring to him by his real name Mario Lavandeira. “When I knocked, he said he was fine, but I could barely hear him. After I knocked a few more times and asked him to open the door, he stopped responding. I tried calling his cell phone in case he couldn’t hear me, but he wouldn’t answer. Something just felt wrong.”
She continued, “I unlocked his bedroom door and realized he was inside the bathroom. I knocked several more times and told him I was going to come in if he didn’t open the door. He still didn’t answer, so I unlocked it. When I opened the door, my nightmare became a reality. Mario was standing in front of the shower, naked, cut up, covered in blood, with a box cutter in his hand.”
“What I can say with certainty is that I didn’t recognize my brother when I looked at him. I saw it in his eyes. They didn’t look the same. Then, a split second later, he smiled at me. It felt like I was staring at someone else,” she recounted.
She said she immediately fled the home with the kids and contacted the authorities.
If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255), visit 988Lifeline.org, or text the Crisis Text Line at 741741.
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