Brandi Glanville admitted she feels “embarrassed” by a GoFundMe her friend, Gina Rodriguez, started amid her ongoing battle with facial disfigurement.
The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum became emotional during Friday’s episode of her “Brandi Glanville Unfiltered” podcast while discussing her difficultly asking others for help.
“I’m embarrassed, honestly, because I don’t like to ask for help,” Glanville, 53, told her co-host, James Maas.
“I never thought I would do this,” she added, noting that Rodriguez told her, “You have no choice.”
Glanville went on to detail the financial strain of her treatment, explaining that she is paying $7,000 a week in medical bills — even with insurance.
She said creditors call her throughout the day, and that stopping payments could prevent her from getting her medication and halt her progress, leaving her “spent in every way.”
The former model acknowledged that she “[doesn’t] want anyone to see” the fundraising page, but said she doesn’t know what else to do.
Maas, for his part, told Glanville, “It’s not embarrassing. What’s embarrassing is the whole medical system … You need a GoFundMe.”
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Glanville recently revealed several diagnoses following years of unexplained issues affecting her face, including “highly resistant ESBL Klebsiella and Enterobacter with biofilm, Coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever), Demodex dermatitis and mononucleosis.”
She also said she has a fungal ball in her face that she is preparing to have removed.
The television personality recently shared footage of an ultrasound on Instagram, saying her doctor “saw something alive” and “moving” in her face during the examination.
“If I don’t find a doctor to cut this out of my face, I’m just going to do it myself,” she said in the video.
Glanville first addressed her facial disfigurement publicly in 2024, when she claimed Bravo was to blame for her appearance and said the condition had left her “miserable” and “depressed.”
“I’m not even going to share the picture of when it sinks in,” she said at the time. “Stress will kill you. How is your wealth? Take care of yourself, people. Thank you, Bravo. I couldn’t even work if I wanted to at this point.”
That same year, Glanville also shared that some medical professionals believed she had a parasite that was “jump[ing] around [her] face,” while others attributed the issue to “stress-induced edema.”
In February, she blamed her health issues on her 20-year-old ruptured breast implants, which she said had leaked silicone in her lymph nodes.
Glanville later learned that she had a benign facial tumor in one of the lymph nodes in her face.
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