#BreakingNews: Lisa Rinna Opens Up About Harrowing Postpartum Health Crisis — “I Was Completely Psychotic”

“I think most women get postpartum depression,” Hamlin, 73, added, and revealed his sister-in-laws and cousin all experienced the medical condition.

As the Mad Men actor continued, he recalled one anecdote when Rinna threatened to “kill” him. “We went to a movie one day in Bracebridge, and you said, ‘I’m gonna kill you,' ” Hamlin recalled. “And I said, ‘You better call Howie [her OB-GYN] right now.’ ”

“Are you sure I said that?” Rinna asked.

“You said, ‘You better watch out. I feel like killing you,' ” Hamlin continued to recall. “You said, ‘Keep the knives in a drawer.' ”

It then registered for the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, and she replied: “I was having these horrible visions. It’s 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.

“I did not have horrible visions about hurting the baby in any way, shape or form,” she explained. “It wasn’t about that.” 

“It was about hopelessness, darkest depression and these horrible visions, hallucinations. It was the knives and it was driving the car into the brick wall,” she said.

Hamlin added that after Rinna made that statement, he told her to call her OB-GYN immediately, who then prescribed her with antidepressants, which took about three weeks to take full effect.

Rinna also noted that her experiences differed between daughters, clarifying that she didn’t have the same visions after Delilah's birth in 1998.

“I was just absolutely hopeless,” she stated. “I don’t know how to describe it, because mine didn’t manifest itself towards the baby at all. It was towards me. I would say looking back, I was completely psychotic.”

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.