The reality star's eldest daughter has "painful" seizure attacks.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum, Lisa Rinna’s eldest daughter, Delilah Belle Hamlin, has opened up about the traumatic seizures she had while filming the music video for her debut single, “Nothing Lasts Forever.”
“On the second day of filming the music video, it was, like, nine hours into the day and I suffered from seizures,” the 24-year-old singer told Entertainment Tonight on Friday, March 16. “We don’t really know too much about them yet. Even though it’s been years, we’re still trying to figure it out. I ended up having a seizure on set.”
“It was probably one of the worst [seizures] I’ve had in a while, but I had everyone I loved around me,” Delilah recalled to the publication. “I was able to bring the emotion of that into filming the next day. At the same time, I’m like, I do this all the time. It’s so normal for me now. That I’m just like, ‘OK, get up.’ When you don’t feel good, but you gotta do the day.”
The model describes her health issue as a “beautiful thing” and a “scary, painful” occurrence. “My mom always taught me that if you are, like, dying, if you are vomiting, if you are throwing up, do the day. Go and do it. Show up for work. So I try. I always try my best. There are some days when I really can’t, but I try my best.”
Hamlin said in January that she had been “quietly battling” autoimmune and chronic sickness challenges. “I haven’t really spoken on my health lately & if you’re new here you’re probably confused but for the past few years I’ve been struggling with autoimmune/chronic illness issues that I’ve been silently battling and overcoming,” the California native wrote via Instagram Story in January.
“It’s definitely been tough mentally alongside physically. I’ve kind of kept quiet because I don’t want to be put in a ‘sick’ role.”
The singer of the hit song “Nothing Lasts Forever” has previously been open about overcoming several persistent health problems. “I’ve faced a lot, overcome a lot, and I know that I’m going through this for a reason, and that reason is to share what I’ve gone through and learned with you.”
“Basically, at the beginning of the year, I want to say February and March, is when I got my COVID-19 vaccine … And after the second vaccine, I was sick for, like, 36 hours. I felt like my bones were breaking but, like, whatever. That’s when everything kind of started. I didn’t realize that the vaccine would cause an autoimmune response in my body. Basically [it] flared up and triggered certain autoimmune diseases that I didn’t know I had. It was like my body was in constant ‘fight or flight’ mode. It was horrible.”
According to the social media influencer, she was originally given a number of antibiotics and supplements to manage her recurrent panic episodes and migraines. She said that she overdosed because doctors “over-prescribed” Xanox to her, which caused her body to become reliant on it. Delilah has subsequently been open about embracing sobriety, admitting that she had been clean for six months in February 2022.
“I wasn’t like a drug addict, but my body was dependent on [Xanax] because of how much the doctor had prescribed me,” she shared in November and revealed later in Summer that she had been experiencing seizures as a result of brain inflammation.