Delilah Belle Hamlin is opening up about ongoing health issues she’s been dealing with for months.
In an emotional 28-minute video on Instagram, Delilah, daughter of Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin, revealed she sought treatment for Xanax dependency earlier this year as she battled autoimmune diseases she believes were triggered by the COVID-19 vaccine.
“This is scary to do because I was actually asked not to tell my story by somebody close to me,” the 23-year-old model began. “Basically, in the beginning of the year, I want to say February and March, is when I got my COVID-19 vaccine. And in no way am I saying I’m an anti-vaxxer because I’m totally not, I just didn’t know enough about it — no one did.”
Delilah said she “didn’t really notice anything” after her first dose of the Moderna vaccine, explaining, “my arm just kind of hurt.”
“After the second vaccine, I was sick for, like, 36 hours. I felt like my bones were breaking but, like, whatever,” she continued. “That’s when everything kind of started.”
According to the model, she’s struggling with Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS), Epstein-Barr virus, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), encephalitis, which is inflammation of the brain, plus five different tick born illnesses.
“I didn’t realize that the vaccine would cause an autoimmune response in my body,” she alleged. “Basically it flared up and triggered certain autoimmune diseases that I didn’t know I had … This is just hard to talk about, because I’m not supposed to talk about it.”
The CDC says clinical trials show that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective in people with underlying medical conditions.
Delilah continued, “I started getting really sick, I started feeling like I had the flu the whole time. I was getting migraines, I was having panic attacks — I would never wish those panic attacks on my worse enemy. It was like my body was in constant ‘fight or flight’ mode. It was horrible.”
