Perez Hilton’s family details gutting truth of his mental state after livestream ‘disfigurement’

Though Perez Hilton is still receiving around-the-clock medical treatment after his graphic livestream, family members have shared a heartbreaking update on his mental health. 

The livestream, which spread like wildfire through every social media platform, ended with Perez Hilton being hospitalised under Florida’s Baker Act. He required surgery after significant blood loss, and though he’s physically recovering from the self-inflicted injuries, he’s facing “lifelong disfigurement” and years of healing. 

“But he doesn’t have a lot of presence of mind. He’s not able to fully process what happened,” a friend earlier said. “This is not going to be something where in five days, I’m like, ‘he’s fine.’ This is months, maybe years.”

Perez Hilton’s brother-in-law has now shared another update, detailing the blogger’s state of mind. 

Perez Hilton’s treatment is now focused on his mental health

On Monday, Perez’s brother-in-law, Tom, shared an update on him on The Perez Hilton Podcast with Chris Booker. 

“So, we are now just transitioning into the mental side of things,” he said. “Although, of course, while he’s in the hospital, while he’s being treated for his physical ailments, psychiatrists come in and check in and see how he’s doing and make sure he’s not looking to harm himself.”

Though he didn’t go into the specifics of what that mental health treatment entails, he noted how the “digging into what caused this mental break as I’ve called it, hasn’t been discovered.”

“I don’t know if it will ever be,” he tragically added, also describing his wife’s brother as “lucid.”

Perez Hilton during a sepsis hospitalisation earlier this year. Credit: Instagram

There’s been lots of speculation about whether Perez was experiencing sepsis-induced psychosis, but Tom reiterated that nothing has been formally diagnosed. 

“I don’t know how much he does or doesn’t recall,” Tom continued. “We will get into that more once he’s in that setting, where we’re focusing on his mental health.”

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Perez Hilton’s family have been protecting him

Just a few days after the graphic livestream, family members said Perez Hilton’s first words upon waking up were “I need help.”

In a bid to protect his mental health and ongoing recovery, they deliberately kept details from him like his lack of support and those claiming “karma.”

“Those are the ones that we don’t want him seeing, we don’t need him to see people saying things like that, it’ll just make him spiral,” they said. 

In another moment, they added: “We don’t even know how to break this news to him, he’ll be crushed. It’s sad really, how little people are rallying behind him. People who have told him they love him, but where are they?”

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His mental recovery has included religion 

Earlier, sources who had known Perez for years detailed how he had turned to God for spiritual healing. 

“He has a bible with him, and he’s really reading it. Praying,” they explained. “He’s really committed to it.”

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