Brandi Glanville feels 'embarrassed' by GoFundMe page to help cover her medical bills

Brandi Glanville feels "embarrassed" after her friend launched a GoFundMe page to help cover the star's mounting medical bills for her ongoing health battle.

The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, who has been battling a mystery health condition for more than two years, with the illness recently causing facial disfigurement, is facing $7,000 a week in medical bills - despite having insurance.

Although Brandi, 53, was reluctant to accept Gina Rodriguez's help, her friend told her that she had "no choice" but to set up a fundraiser to help pay for the ongoing treatment.

On the latest episode of Brandi and James Maas' Unfiltered podcast, she said: "I’m on all of this crazy medication, [and] even with my insurance, it’s $7,000 a week. Then, I have creditors calling me all day.

"[My friend], Gina, started a GoFundMe for me. I’m embarrassed, honestly, ‘cause I don’t like to ask for help, and I never thought I would do this.

"If I stop paying, I won’t get my medication, and then I won’t make any progress. Right now, I paid half, and I still owe them. I’m just, like, I’m spent. I don’t want anyone to see it, but I don’t know what to do."

James told his teary co-host that the GoFundMe page, which, at the time of writing, has raised over $7,100 of its $28,000 target, is "not embarrassing".

He then claimed: "What’s embarrassing is the whole medical system, and the fact that you were allowed, when you have health insurance, to pay all of this money to doctors that they’ve referred you that have made you feel at times like killing yourself or self-mutilating because there was no other option."

James added: "You need a GoFundMe. You’re the last person that wants to ask for help. When you don’t even have money … you’ll take me out to a fancy dinner or something like that, and I realise it's on a credit card last minute."

He continued: "You’re just the most giving person, and you don’t want to take anything from anyone."

Brandi noted that she "can't work" because of her ongoing health woes.

Crying, the TV personality said: "I just feel like a loser because I feel like I definitely hit rock bottom, and I’m embarrassed. I just never thought I would do this. … Gina did it for me. I know, like, she’s looking out for me."

Taking to Instagram on Tuesday (08.09.26), Brandi revealed that she has been diagnosed with "highly resistant ESBL Klebsiella and Enterobacter with biofilm, Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever), Demodex dermatitis and Mononucleosis".

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), ESBL Klebsiella is a kind of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.