Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin candidly discussed the actressâ experience with postpartum depression following the birth of both daughters.
Rinna and her husband discussed their daughters â Delilah Belle, 26, and Amelia Gray, 23 â parenthood, pregnancy and postpartum on the Friday, April 18, episode of their podcast, Letâs Not Talk About the Husband. âI had horrible postpartum depression, but I didnât know it,â Rinna, 61, said. âI didnât know what it was, because you know when you have your first baby, you donât know.â
âI think most women get postpartum depression,â Hamlin, 73, added, and revealed his sister-in-laws and cousin all experienced the medical condition.
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As the Mad Men actor continued, he recalled one anecdote when Rinna threatened to âkillâ him. âWe went to a movie one day in Bracebridge, and you said, âIâm gonna kill you,' â Hamlin recalled. âAnd I said, âYou better call Howie [her OB-GYN] right now.â â
âAre you sure I said that?â Rinna asked.
âYou said, âYou better watch out. I feel like killing you,' â Hamlin continued to recall. âYou said, âKeep the knives in a drawer.' â
It then registered for the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, and she replied: âI was having these horrible visions. Itâs true. I was having horrible hallucinations of killing people. And I needed to take the knives out of the house. And I also had horrible visions of driving the car into a brick wall.
âI did not have horrible visions about hurting the baby in any way, shape or form,â she explained. âIt wasnât about that.âÂ
âIt was about hopelessness, darkest depression and these horrible visions, hallucinations. It was the knives and it was driving the car into the brick wall,â she said.
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Hamlin added that after Rinna made that statement, he told her to call her OB-GYNÂ immediately, who then prescribed her with antidepressants, which took about three weeks to take full effect.
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Rinna also noted that her experiences differed between daughters, clarifying that she didnât have the same visions after Delilah's birth in 1998.
âI was just absolutely hopeless,â she stated. âI donât know how to describe it, because mine didnât manifest itself towards the baby at all. It was towards me. I would say looking back, I was completely psychotic.â
The Cleveland Clinic describes postpartum depression as "a type of depression that happens after you give birth. Postpartum depression doesn't just affect the birth mother. It can affect surrogates and adoptive parents, too."
If you or someone you know needs mental health help, text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.