Perez Hilton is 'lucid' after mental health crisis, brother-in-law shares

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Set us as preferred Perez Hilton’s family has revealed new details about the blogger’s health before and after his mental health crisis earlier this month.On Monday, Hilton’s brother-in-law, Tom (who did not provide a last name), appeared on “The Perez Hilton Podcast With Chris Booker” to talk about the 48-year-old’s self-harming incident that occurred Aug.4 on a TikTok livestream.Tom — who is married to Perez’s sister, Barbara Lavandeira — shared that the celebrity gossip columnist was now in a “lucid” state after receiving treatment for his physical injuries and his care would be “transitioning into the mental side of things.”“He’s going to be going into a facility that is going to focus on his mental recovery,” he said on the podcast.

“I don’t think you’re going to see him pop up in a few days.”On Aug.4, Miami police responded to calls around 9 p.m.

concerning a TikTok livestream where Hilton harmed himself repeatedly with a box cutter and knife and expressed suicidal intent.After authorities safely recovered Hilton, he was placed in a 72-hour hold under Florida’s Baker Act, which allows for detention to assess mental health.“There was some broken bones,” his brother-in-law said of Hilton’s physical injuries from his self-harming incident.

“There [were] some other things stemming back from his sepsis.”In March, Hilton was hospitalized in Las Vegas for 21 days due to severe sepsis, he shared a video, in which he said God presented himself to him and that he was a changed man.After recovering from the life-threatening illness, Hilton made the decision to relocate his family to Miami in June.His brother-in-law — who said he had known the blogger for more than 20 years — did not believe the abrupt move was a red flag, considering past relocations to New York City in 20...