Perez Hilton’s Sister Details Moment She Found Him Amid Self-Harm Livestream: “I Didn’t Recognize My Brother”

Perez Hilton ‘s sister is speaking out about the moment last week when she found her celebrity blogger brother in the bathroom of his Miami home covered in blood after cutting himself repeatedly while streaming the self-harm and possible suicide attempt live online.

“Aug. 4 will forever be one of the darkest days my family and I have ever experienced,” Barbara Lavandeira, the sister of the star blogger, whose real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., told Page Six this week .

Lavandeira is referring to the date that her older brother was found livestreaming himself on TikTok from his home, making suicidal threats and using an object to cut himself repeatedly. The stream of the bloody incident was reportedly live for 30 minutes . As of Thursday, Hilton remained hospitalized in Miami and had allowed his mother to begin legal proceedings to take over temporary custody of his three kids. Related Stories News Perez Hilton Signs Over Temporary Custody of His Children to His Mother Amid Hospitalization News Perez Hilton's Condition "Serious But Stable" Amid Hospitalization, Will Require Surgery

Lavandeira was at the Miami home where her brother moved from Las Vegas with his three kids, all of whom were born via surrogacy, earlier this year. She told Page Six that she walked into the house to find Hilton’s bedroom door shut — which she said was odd, as he always left it open. She soon discovered that he was in the bathroom of his bedroom.

“When I knocked, he said he was fine, but I could barely hear him,” she told the outlet. “After I knocked a few more times and asked him to open the door, he stopped responding. I tried calling his cellphone in case he couldn’t hear me, but he wouldn’t answer. Something just felt wrong.”

Soon after he stopped responding to her, she told her brother, with whom Page Six said she shares a tight bond, that she would be coming into the bathroom. When she unlocked the door and her big brother locked eyes with her, she came face to face with an unimaginable horror.

“What I can say with certainty is that I didn’t recognize my brother when I looked at him. I saw it in his eyes. They didn’t look the same. Then, a split second later, he smiled at me. It felt like I was staring at someone else,” she told the outlet.

Lavandeira said that her first instinct was to get his three kids and her daughter out of the house and to someplace safe, which ended up being her car, until a nearby friend she called was able to take them away from the property. After this, she called 911.

“I left the room, grabbed the car keys and yelled for the kids to run to the car. Thankfully, our mom wasn’t home at the time, and I was able to get everyone out quickly,” she said.

After placing the call for help, she got back into the house and came to her brother’s aid, placing towels over him to stop the bleeding from the many cuts on his body.