Brandi Glanville has been isolated from her friends for years as they 'didn't believe anything was happening' amid facial disfigurement battle

Brandi Glanville said she has been isolated from her friends for the past few years as she claimed that some 'didn't believe anything was happening' to her amid her health battle.

The reality TV star, 53, previously said why she 'pulled away from everyone' in a recent episode of her podcast Brandi Glanville Unfiltered.  

She said she rarely sees anyone else besides her kids, per TMZ, and stays at home 'all day, every day.'

Glanville shares sons Mason, 23, and Jake, 19, with ex-husband Eddie Cibrian. 

She explained that is mostly because of her time-consuming treatment schedule, which consists of a rotating series of 18-hour IVs.

After spending most of the day getting treatments intravenously, she said she spends the rest of her day going to the pharmacy to pick up more prescriptions. 

She said she developed anxiety about leaving her house and would prefer to stay home with her dogs. 

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum told the outlet she stopped answering calls and replying to text messages because she wouldn't have any health updates.

Glanville also said some of her friends did not believe she was suffering from any physical illness. 

She said: 'My friends were great but I isolated. They would call but I wouldn't pick up, I wouldn't answer my text because I wouldn't have any new news.

'And a lot of them didn't believe anything was happening to me. They were worried it was just depression. It's my fault because I just wanted to deal with this myself because it's hard to explain and I didn't have answers for it.'

In the September 11th episode of her podcast, she opened up about being 'depressed' and not socializing ever since she started experiencing facial disfigurement.

'I love all my friends, I do. But — this is hard to explain — and I can't go out ... I get depressed,' she admitted.

'I don't want to talk on the phone. I have to isolate. It's like I'm back in my own personal COVID. I gotten rid of all of my furniture [and] most of my clothes.'

In her TMZ interview, Glanville also admitted she is 'embarrassed' to ask for help financially after her friend started a GoFundMe fundraiser.

She told the outlet that asking other people for money is the last thing she wanted.

In her podcast episode, Glanville had broken down in tears as she opened up about her pricey $16,000-per-month treatment after her friend launched a fundraiser to help pay for her medical bills. 

Glanville also discussed about her upcoming appearance on Special Forces. 

She admitted she did not want to do the show but needed the paycheck, with the outlet reporting that her dark and harrowing rationale is: 'If she was going to die, she might as well make some money first.' 

She said she had an antibiotic-resistant bacteria called ESBL Klebsiella and Enterobacter, a fungal infection called Coccidioidomycosis, an inflammatory skin reaction called Demodex dermatitis and a viral infection called Mononucleosis. 

She also claimed that she had a 'fungal ball' in her face that needed to be surgically removed, per Page Six. 

Over the summer, she said she discovered 'a benign tumor in one of [her] lymph nodes in [her] face' while dealing with her facial parasite and disfigurement health battle. 

On an episode of her Brandi Glanville Unfiltered podcast released in June, she said that the non-cancerous tumor 'could be why the fluid is going around my face.' 

She also said at the time that her face started 'sinking in again' after struggling with the facial parasite. 

She previously said the parasite caused her face to change so much and revealed that she had spent over $113,000 on trying to figure out the cause of her facial disfigurement and treat it. 

She noted that she had been dealing with a facial parasite for 'a long three years' and was hoping to recover so she could 'put on a ton of makeup again' and have a 'glow-up.' 

'I don't know what's wrong with me, guys,' she added. 'I thought I was fixed, and then it happened again and now it's sinking in again.'

Glanville said she believed that her health struggles was in part due to ruptured breast implants and said the leaking silicone had clogged her lymph nodes. 

She opened up about undergoing treatments for fluid drainage before later revealing parts of her face had started 'sinking again,' and in early June, she said the 'parasite' had returned.