Brandi Glanville reveals candid, emotional details about her debilitating face ‘parasite’

Brandi Glanville got emotional while discussing what may be causing her facial disfigurement.

The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum exclusively spoke with Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” co-hosts Evan Real and Danny Murphy about working with Los Angeles plastic surgeon Dr. Nicholas Nikolov to help treat the symptoms from her suspected parasitic infection.

When asked if she believes she still has a parasite in her face, a frustrated Glanville replied, “I don’t f—king know. We don’t know.”

Glanville, 52, told us that she initially took a break from the antibiotics she was prescribed. However, she started re-taking them when she noticed her face was beginning to “sink in” again.

“I prefer [my face] when it’s a little swollen, to be honest,” she explained of her current situation. “When it’s only swollen on one side, it’s not great. But the sinking in thing is killing me slowly, because I just feel like I look like a crackhead.”

Glanville added that she just wants an answer “so desperately” at this point.

“You could do anything you want to me, and I’d be OK with it,” she said. “I’ve had days of looking normal, not weeks. I wish. But it comes and goes.”

She added, “Over the weekend, it was only swollen on the right side of my face, so I looked like I had a really big meatball in the right side of my cheek.”

Glanville described the swelling as being filled with an “oily fluid” that’s “disgusting” and “so gross.”

“Whenever I get the chills, it’s generally an infection,” she told Page Six. “Then I start having the ticking in my ear, and then whatever’s in my face, moving around, started moving around again. And it starts sinking in again.”

Glanville admitted that the whole ordeal has taken a big toll on both her social life and mental health.

“It’s hard to hide out during Christmas when everyone’s having their parties. It’s depressing. It just hurts my brain and my heart,” the “Traitors” alum confessed.

“The pain is more mental than anything, because I have been hiding and going through a deep, deep depression. Even if I could work now, at this point, I couldn’t. So it’s just been a really rough two years for me.”

Glanville told us that even being around her two kids has been a challenge, so much so that she was wearing a “mask” around their house to avoid them having to see her “scary” face.

“They would try and calm me down and say I look normal and fine, but I knew better,” she recalled. “I honestly scared them a couple times. They were like, ‘What is happening?’ [My face] went from being like really fat and swollen to now, like, sinking in.”

Glanville has since enlisted the help of several doctors –– including Dr. Nikolov — to help with her facial disfigurement and suspected parasite.

Dr. Nikolov has been using CellSound, a noninvasive treatment that stimulates cells to behave more youthfully, without damaging tissue, using non-focused ultrasound waves and a patented electro-stimulation field.

“This is a device that is not treating parasites,” he clarified. “What we are treating here is the damage that has been caused from her having gone through all these infections for over a year. And once you have this kind of damage to the tissue, you see the cosmetic outcome she has — not enough blood getting [to her face].

“It started as a wound-healing device, so it is used to heal damaged areas, whether it’s infection trauma or diabetic wounds — really, anything,” he added. “So improving the blood flow, you’re healing the tissue. And by healing it, of course it looks and feels better right away. We just want Brandi to feel like Brandi again. We’re hopeful and confident that we can make that happen.”