Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville recently shared an unusual medical mishap that unfolded over Easter weekend. What began as an attempt to cure a head cold using a home remedy ended with an urgent care visit to remove a piece of garlic lodged in her ear.
Glanville recounted the incident on her Unfiltered podcast, explaining, "On Easter, I didn't do anything because of my garlic in my ear. Every time I tried to get it out, it really went down further. And I had to go to urgent care the next day and get it taken out."
The 53-year-old traced the predicament back to her sons. She blamed her 18-year-old son, Jake, for giving her the cold, and her 22-year-old son, Mason, for suggesting the garlic remedy. "Listen, Mason also said when he had a cold, he put it in his nostril and it helped him," Glanville said. "I tried my nostril, it was burning too much, so I moved it to my ear. It was like burning my skin 'cause I just lasered it."
While defending her actions by saying, "I was just trying to clear my sinuses," she offered a clear warning to her audience: "Don't listen to people online or Tik Tok or Instagram or Twitter or Facebook." She humorously concluded, "I have garlic in my brain now."
This episode is part of a broader pattern of Glanville being open about her health challenges. Since 2023, she has documented a battle with a facial infection, which she later attributed to ruptured breast implants. In February, she revealed to TMZ, "I had silicone all over my lymph nodes. And that's what caused the infection in my face and couldn't get out because my lymph nodes were all clogged."
The discovery that her 20-year-old implants had ruptured came as a shock, as routine checks had not indicated any issues. "I was just feeling like, 'Maybe just check that, too. Why not?'" she recalled. "I mean, I've checked everything else. I went to 21 doctors. And I spent so much money."
Reflecting on the ordeal, Glanville shared a hard-learned lesson, cautioning others: "You really should change your breast implants out at ten years. And I just didn't do it. If it's not broke don't fix it. So, I learned a really, really hard lesson."