Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin candidly discussed the actress’ experience with postpartum depression following the birth of both daughters.
Rinna and her husband discussed their daughters – Delilah Belle, 26, and Amelia Gray, 23 – parenthood, pregnancy and postpartum on the Friday, April 18, episode of their podcast, Let’s Not Talk About the Husband. “I had horrible postpartum depression, but I didn’t know it,” Rinna, 61, said. “I didn’t know what it was, because you know when you have your first baby, you don’t know.”
“I think most women get postpartum depression,” Hamlin, 73, added, and revealed his sister-in-laws and cousin all experienced the medical condition.
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Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna on Let’s Not Talk About The Husband podcast
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As the Mad Men actor continued, he recalled one anecdote when Rinna threatened to “kill” him. “We went to a movie one day in Bracebridge, and you said, ‘I’m gonna kill you,’ ” Hamlin recalled. “And I said, ‘You better call Howie [her OB-GYN] right now.’ ”
“Are you sure I said that?” Rinna asked.
“You said, ‘You better watch out. I feel like killing you,’ ” Hamlin continued to recall. “You said, ‘Keep the knives in a drawer.’ ”
It then registered for the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, and she replied: “I was having these horrible visions. It’s true. I was having horrible hallucinations of killing people. And I needed to take the knives out of the house. And I also had horrible visions of driving the car into a brick wall.
“I did not have horrible visions about hurting the baby in any way, shape or form,” she explained. “It wasn’t about that.”
“It was about hopelessness, darkest depression and these horrible visions, hallucinations. It was the knives and it was driving the car into the brick wall,” she said.
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Amelia Hamlin and Lisa Rinna on April 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Hamlin added that after Rinna made that statement, he told her to call her OB-GYN immediately, who then prescribed her with antidepressants, which took about three weeks to take full effect.
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Lisa Rinna, Harry Hamlin and Delilah Belle Hamlin on January 31, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Rinna also noted that her experiences differed between daughters, clarifying that she didn’t have the same visions after Delilah’s birth in 1998.
“I was just absolutely hopeless,” she stated. “I don’t know how to describe it, because mine didn’t manifest itself towards the baby at all. It was towards me. I would say looking back, I was completely psychotic.”
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The Cleveland Clinic describes postpartum depression as “a type of depression that happens after you give birth. Postpartum depression doesn’t just affect the birth mother. It can affect surrogates and adoptive parents, too.”
If you or someone you know needs mental health help, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor.
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