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Perez Hilton's sister Barbara has offered a chilling eyewitness account of the shocking self-harm incident that saw him hospitalized last week.
Hilton, 48, was taken to the hospital in Miami last Tuesday after the police received emergency calls alerting them to a potential suicide attempt.
Footage from the stream, which The Daily Mail has chosen not to republish, appears to show him smeared with blood after seemingly having taken a knife to himself.
It emerged that his three children Mario, 13, Mia, 11, and Mayte, eight, as well as his niece and Barbara, had been at the house in the lead-up to the incident.
Now Barbara, 42, has recalled becoming frightened for his well-being, bursting into his bathroom and being confronted with the sight of him 'standing in front of the shower, naked, cut up, covered in blood, with a box cutter in his hand,' via Page Six.
She immediately whisked the children out to the car in a desperate attempt to shield them from the 'nightmare' unfolding inside the house.
Perez Hilton's sister Barbara has offered a chilling eyewitness account of the shocking self-harm incident that saw him hospitalized last week; pictured in hospital earlier this year
Hilton's mother filed to obtain temporary custody of his children, Mario, 13, Mia, 11, and Mayte, eight, in the wake of his shocking self-harm livestream last week
Barbara appears to have come upon her brother, whose real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr, after he had already left the TikTok livestream.
'That afternoon, Mario was in his bedroom with the door closed and locked, which wasn’t like him. His door was almost always open,' she recalled.
'“When I knocked, he said he was fine, but I could barely hear him. After I knocked a few more times and asked him to open the door, he stopped responding.'
Barbara then 'tried calling his cellphone in case he couldn’t hear me, but he wouldn’t answer. Something just felt wrong,' she said.
'I unlocked his bedroom door and realized he was inside the bathroom. I knocked several more times and told him I was going to come in if he didn’t open the door. He still didn’t answer, so I unlocked it.'
Upon entering the room, her 'nightmare became a reality' as she found herself facing her bloodied brother grasping a box cutter by the shower.
'What I can say with certainty is that I didn’t recognize my brother when I looked at him,' said Barbara. '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.'
Determined to keep the children away from the crisis, she '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.'
After dialing 911 in order to call the police to her brother's house, Barbara 'messaged my best friend, who lives nearby, while I was on with dispatch, and asked her to please come get the kids and take them away from the scene.'
Hilton's sister, who was visiting him from California, made her way back inside and attempted to staunch his bleeding with towels while awaiting the ambulance.
'He had already lost a significant amount of blood, yet he was somehow still able to speak, although his voice was very faint,' she said. 'The ambulance took him to the hospital, and I stayed behind to speak with the crisis team that arrived.'
On August 7, three days after he was hospitalized, Hilton's Teresita Lavandeira submitted a petition in a Miami family court to temporarily assume custody of his children, according to public records viewed by The Daily Mail.
Meanwhile, Barbara grappled with 'whether I should say anything personally,' noting that her brother 'has always been an open book,' while she was 'the opposite.'
She described herself as 'a very private person,' pointing out that 'although I’ve worked with him for many years, I’ve always stayed behind the scenes.'