Perez Hilton‘s sister is speaking out about the moment last week when she found her celebrity blogger brother in the bathroom of his Miami home covered in blood after cutting himself repeatedly while streaming the self-harm and possible suicide attempt live online.
“Aug. 4 will forever be one of the darkest days my family and I have ever experienced,” Barbara Lavandeira, the sister of the star blogger, whose real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., told Page Six this week.
Lavandeira is referring to the date that her older brother was found livestreaming himself on TikTok from his home, making suicidal threats and using an object to cut himself repeatedly. The stream of the bloody incident was reportedly live for 30 minutes. As of Thursday, Hilton remained hospitalized in Miami and had allowed his mother to begin legal proceedings to take over temporary custody of his three kids.
Lavandeira was at the Miami home where her brother moved from Las Vegas with his three kids, all of whom were born via surrogacy, earlier this year. She told Page Six that she walked into the house to find Hilton’s bedroom door shut — which she said was odd, as he always left it open. She soon discovered that he was in the bathroom of his bedroom.
