Brandi Glanville Offers Update on Face Amid Health Crisis as She Compares Herself to a “Crackhead” & Admits to Bouts of Depression

Brandi Glanville offered an update on her two-year health crisis and potential face parasite in a series of posts on X this week.

While also opening up about the mental health struggles she’s faced as a result of her disfigurement, the 52-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum thanked her fans and followers for support as she admitted she still is unsure of what is causing her face to swell and sink.

“I know I shouldn’t read the comments but you know what they say about idle time. On a good note I truly appreciate all of ur positive outreach. I don’t have a diagnosis yet. I have a lot of guesstimates. I have met with almost EVERYONE that has reached out. I know an answer exists,” Brandi wrote in a message shared on December 22.

Then, in a post shared on December 24, she added, “I’m being irresponsible and turning off my phone. I need to sleep happy holidays. Hope we all get a little bit of love for the end of this year.”

Prior to Brandi’s recent tweets, the RHOBH alum, who appeared on the show in a full-time role for its third to fifth seasons, was featured on Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea podcast, where she spoke of her face “parasite,” confirming she’s started taking antibiotics.

“I prefer [my face] when it’s a little swollen, to be honest,” she admitted. “When it’s only swollen on one side, it’s not great. But the sinking in thing is killing me slowly, because I just feel like I look like a crackhead.”

According to Brandi, she “desperately” wants an answer about what’s wrong with her.

“You could do anything you want to me, and I’d be OK with it,” she explained. “I’ve had days of looking normal, not weeks. I wish. But it comes and goes. Over the weekend, it was only swollen on the right side of my face, so I looked like I had a really big meatball in the right side of my cheek.”

Brandi went on to describe her facial swelling as “disgusting” and “gross,” and she said it feels as if there is an “oily fluid” inside of her face.

“Whenever I get the chills, it’s generally an infection,” she said. “Then I start having the ticking in my ear, and then whatever’s in my face, moving around, started moving around again. And it starts sinking in again.”

Understandably, what Brandi has been dealing with physically has taken its toll on her mentally.

“It’s hard to hide out during Christmas when everyone’s having their parties. It’s depressing. It just hurts my brain and my heart,” she shared. “The pain is more mental than anything, because I have been hiding and going through a deep, deep depression. Even if I could work now, at this point, I couldn’t. So it’s just been a really rough two years for me.”

Brandi has even begun wearing a mask at home after frightening her two children, sons Mason and Jake, with her “scary” face.

“They would try and calm me down and say I look normal and fine, but I knew better,” she recalled. “I honestly scared them a couple times. They were like, ‘What is happening?’ [My face] went from being like really fat and swollen to now, like, sinking in.”

As RHOBH fans well know, Brandi is currently in the midst of legal drama with Bravo. She is attempting to take legal action against the network, and she’s also involved in the lawsuit Caroline Manzo, 63, filed against Bravo in which Brandi was accused of sexual harassment.