Perez Hilton’s Sister Details What Happened During Self-Harm Livestream

Content warning: This story discusses self-harm. 

Perez Hilton’s family is sharing more about his harrowing ordeal.

The blogger’s sister Barbara Lavandeira detailed her own firsthand account after Hilton (real name Mario Lavandeira  Jr.) was hospitalized for engaging in self-harm during an Aug. 4 livestream. 

“Aug. 4 will forever be one of the darkest days my family and I have ever experienced,” Lavandeira told Page Six in an interview published Aug. 13. “That afternoon, Mario was in his bedroom with the door closed and locked, which wasn’t like him. His door was almost always open.”

Lavandeira recalled that Hilton, 48, stopped responding to her, at which point she became concerned and unlocked the door to his bedroom before entering his bathroom. 

“When I opened the door, my nightmare became a reality,” she said. “Mario was standing in front of the shower, naked, cut up, covered in blood, with a box cutter in his hand.”