On Friday’s episode of Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin’s “Let’s Not Talk About The Husband” podcast, the couple recalled Rinna’s intense struggles with postpartum melancholy after she gave delivery to their second daughter, Amelia, in 2001.
“I’ll never forget after Amelia was born, we were at the cabin in Canada, we went to a movie one day in Bracebridge, and you said, ‘I’m gonna kill you,’” Hamlin, 73, recalled.
“And I said, ‘You better call Howie [her OB-GYN] right now,’” the “Mad Men” actor continued. “We were sitting outside the theater.”
“Are you sure I said that?” the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum requested.
“You said, ‘You better watch out. I feel like killing you,’” Hamlin reminded his spouse. “You said, ‘Keep the knives in a drawer.’”
Rinna then confessed, “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 clarified. “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.”
Rinna recalled that she was prescribed antidepressants that “worked instantly” and “changed the whole thing. It changed the game instantly.”
However Rinna famous that the treatment didn’t kick in for about three weeks, so she nonetheless handled “a f—ing nightmare challenge” caring for her two children in Canada.
“Here we are on an island with a baby and a 3-year-old. I was out of my mind,” she shared, including that she additionally handled postpartum after older daughter Delilah’s delivery in 1998.
“I had postpartum 15 months and didn’t do anything about it,” Rinna mentioned. “Didn’t know I had it, didn’t know what to do.”
The “Melrose Place” actress informed her husband that she didn’t have visions throughout her first postpartum expertise, however she nonetheless felt “hopelessness.”
Rinna, who has been married to Hamlin since 1997, beforehand opened up about affected by postpartum melancholy in an interview with Cosmopolitan final 12 months.
“I didn’t know I had it for the first 15 months of Delilah’s life, and then once we figured it out, I was treated for it, and I was ready for it when I had Amelia,” she mentioned.
“I went on an antidepressant, which helped tremendously. Without that, I don’t know how long it would’ve taken,” Rinna continued.
“I’m very positive and a very happy person, and I felt completely hopeless,” she added. “And that’s pretty scary when you’ve never had that happen in your life.”
