Lisa Rinna's honest account of postpartum struggles

POSTPARTUM depression is no longer a whispered phrase hidden behind pastel baby showers and filtered Instagram posts.

- BERNELEE VOLLMER

It's real, raw and more common than most people think, and when someone like The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Lisa Rinna opens up about it, it reminds us why the conversation still matters.

In an honest and haunting episode of her podcast Let's Not Talk About the Husband, Rinna revealed the dark spiral she fell into after giving birth to her first child.

Speaking to her actor husband Harry Hamlin, she said she had horrible postpartum depression.

“I had horrible postpartum depression, but I didn’t know it. I didn’t know what it was, because you know when you have your first baby, you don’t know.”

The conversation took a turn when Hamlin recalled how she once threatened to kill him after a movie outing.

“You said, ‘You better watch out. I feel like killing you.’ You said, ‘Keep the knives in a drawer,’” Hamlin said.