Delilah Hamlin is bravely opening up about her dependency on prescription medication and how it led to her overdosing accidentally on the pills.
The 23-year-old model and eldest daughter of Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna took to social media to open up about what she went through. On her Instagram, Delilah shared an extremely raw and honest video message, where she talked about how she had to seek help after accidentally OD-ing.
Delilah candidly shared:
“I found a psychiatrist and he over-prescribed me. He over-prescribed me with one medication that one of my friends takes for 10 milligrams and he gave me 20 milligrams a day. And then he gave me three milligrams of Xanax a day, so my body got dependent on Xanax number one, and number two I overdosed.”
She stated that this was not something she ever meant to do:
“I didn’t mean to at all. I overdosed on this one medication called Propranolol. And I took Benadryl with it and for some reason, I ended up in the hospital.”
Delilah reached out to her parents and her boyfriend Eyal Booker, and she found a treatment center located in Arizona that she believed could help her with her dependency:
“I thought this place was going to be like, a place to, like, cure me, just cure everything, help me. Everything got to the point where sometimes I couldn’t even walk to the toilet.
But unfortunately, I was, I think, a medical risk, so I was politely asked to leave after three weeks of being there. That was really hard because in my mind I was like, well if I’m too sick for this place then I’m too sick for anywhere.”
She shared that the doctors at the treatment center decided that she was a medical risk after she was not able to walk anymore, which caused her to fall and have a concussion. Delilah added that she was also having seizures at the time:
“I went to Arizona and it was really hard at first. It was a treatment center, not a rehab. It was something I had to invest in with my own money, which was a scary thing because I had to trust this place.”
Delilah is now back home, and she vulnerably spoke of how she would love to get support as well as recommendations in their area:
“I would really love some support and some recommendations if you’re in the L.A. area. I’m on a really strict diet. I take a crazy amount of supplements to detox my body. I’ve been sober from alcohol for two months.”
In 2018, Delilah voluntarily checked into rehab twice as she dealt with severe depression and anxiety.
