In a newly released 911 recording, Perez Hilton’s sister asks for help after finding the celebrity blogger suffering a mental health crisis in August.
TMZ published the recording on Thursday, Oct. 29.
You can hear Barbara Lavandeira speaking with a dispatcher on Aug. 4, the night Hilton livestreamed acts of self-harm on TikTok. Speaking calmly, Barbara says her brother is having a “meltdown.”
“He is all cut up and I can’t tell from where, but he is covered in blood,” she tells the dispatcher. She also reveals Hilton was suicidal the previous week.
As the dispatcher asks her to describe what is happening, Barbara says Hilton is injured but awake and breathing in a bathroom.
“I did step out of the house because I have his kids and my kid with me,” she says.
The dispatcher assures her that sheriff’s deputies are on the way. The recording is separate from emergency dispatch audio released in August when first responders were sent to Hilton’s Miami area home.
Hilton, whose legal name is Mario Lavandeira Jr., was hospitalized after the incident. Social media users watching the livestream expressed alarm and urged him to stop harming himself.
The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said at the time that deputies responded after receiving “multiple calls regarding an individual who was livestreaming acts of self-harm on social media.”
Hilton spent multiple days in the hospital after being admitted under Florida’s Baker Act, which allows an involuntary emergency psychiatric evaluation for up to 72 hours.
His family released a statement in August, saying he needed surgery after “significant blood Loss” and faced a “long” recovery.
Hilton is a single father of three children born via surrogacy.
As Urban Hollywood 411 previously reported, a Florida judge granted the blogger’s mother temporary legal custody of his three children after he was hospitalized. An August ruling allowed supervised visits with a therapist or an approved family member, once Hilton received psychiatric clearance.
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org.
Discover more from Urban Hollywood 411
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
