Brandi Glanville Reveals Her Father Has Died in Heartbreaking Announcement

Brandi Glanville has announced the death of her father, Guy, who was 77, sharing the devastating news in an emotional post on X.

The 53-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, who has recently been dealing with an ongoing facial disfigurement battle, revealed the loss in a brief message posted Saturday.

“My dad died, I’m gutted I hate this life right now,” Glanville wrote, adding a broken-heart emoji.

She did not disclose the circumstances surrounding Guy’s death. After the announcement, fans and fellow reality stars offered their support, including Real Housewives of New York City personality Sonja Morgan, who commented: “So sorry you are going through this Brandi. Sending love and strength.”

Daily Mail has contacted a representative for Glanville for additional comment but has not yet received a response.

In May, the reality television personality had asked followers to pray for her father after revealing that he had been admitted to the hospital.

“Been completely off the grid,” she wrote in an X post at the time.

“Dads in cardiac unit at the hospital & it’s day 13 now. WE are both medical mysteries. pray for my dad Guy Glanville.”

Glanville has previously spoken candidly about her complicated and sometimes strained relationship with her father.

The father and daughter had been estranged before reconnecting on Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Family Edition in 2018.

However, Glanville later revealed that they stopped communicating after the show aired.

“My dad and I, we left the show in a great space and then, when the show aired, we haven’t talked since,” she told Entertainment Tonight that year.

She said it was her father’s first experience appearing on television and explained that she had cautioned him beforehand: “They’re not going to be able to show everything that we shot.”

“They’re going to show the highlights, so you have to write down notes and understand it’s going to be the highlights of what we shot, and don’t get mad – you’re gonna get mad all over again.” She added that, ultimately, he did become upset.

Glanville further told the outlet that she thinks her dad ‘cares what his friends and everyone was saying about what they saw, and I thought they gave him a great edit, to be honest, because he was a little bit worried. 

‘But, no, we haven’t talked since, unfortunately. But I love him dearly. He’s everything,’ the star added, before adding that she was ‘leaving [it] in his corner.’ 

Glanville and Guy reconciled as he publicly defended his daughter amid her feud with Denise Richards in 2020.

The TV personality shared a video of her father on Instagram as he told the camera, ‘My daughter may be many things, sometimes an assh**, but she is not a liar.’

She has also taken to the social media platform to share photos of the pair posing together in recent years. 

Along with Glanville, Guy was also father to her siblings Tricia and Michael. 

Earlier this week, the RHOBH star revealed she is set to undergo surgery amid her devastating facial disfigurement battle.

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She said she ‘scheduled an exploratory surgery’ for later this month to find out if she has ‘a fungus’ or ‘some sort of worm living in [her] face.’

‘Something is in my face, eating it,’ she said on Thursday’s episode of her Brandi Glanville Unfiltered podcast, before sharing an update on her upcoming procedure.

She admitted to fans that she is ‘scared’ but also ‘so excited’ to find out the cause of her health issues after spending four years and over $113,000 trying to treat what she believes is a ‘facial parasite.’

‘I know they’re going to find that out when they go in there,’ Glanville said. ‘I’ve scheduled exploratory surgery in a couple weeks.’

She added: ‘I have two appointments this week. I am so excited. These past four years, I didn’t think I was going to make it.’

Glanville’s update comes shortly after she revealed that she was diagnosed with a ‘highly resistant ESBL Klebsiella and Enterobacter with biofilm, Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever), Demodex dermatitis and Mononucleosis.’

On her latest podcast episode, she said the surgeons ‘are going to go in and see [what happened].’

She also admitted to her podcast cohost James Maas: ‘I just get scared. Surgery scares me.’

Glanville explained that the surgical procedure will involve ‘balloons’ being inserted into the Eustachian tubes in her face to explore the channels of bone and cartilage that connect the ear to the nose and upper throat.

‘They’re going to clear that out so everything can drain,’ she explained.

‘I’m pretty sure there’s some sort of worm living in my face but they said it’s a fungus,’ she added. ‘Funguses are alive as well and it’s going down my body.’

After spending so much time and money on various diagnoses and treatments, she said: ‘I’m excited to just get my life back.’

Glanville also recalled how she had a recent medical appointment and told her doctor that she doesn’t ‘feel like my neck is a part of my body.’

She said while watching herself on Special Forces and looking at the dramatic change in her appearance, she felt like she had ‘a thick neck with a Beetlejuice head.’

During a podcast episode from recent weeks, Glanville also touched on receiving support from fellow Bravolebrities amid her health struggles.

After one of her friends started a GoFundMe page to help her pay for treatments, she said she also received financial support from some Housewives.

Glanville also said she got medical advice from her former RHOBH costar Yolanda Hadid amid her medical journey and in spite of their past feud.

In mid-September, she shared a statement on Instagram in response to the support she received after her GoFundMe page was launched.

‘I’m honestly overwhelmed by all the love and support,’ she wrote to her fans. ‘Thank you to every single person who has donated, shared my GoFundMe, checked on me, prayed for me or sent me love.’

Glanville admitted ‘asking for help isn’t easy for me.’

‘But knowing I have so many people in my corner means more than I can ever explain,’ she added.

‘I still have a long road ahead, but you’re helping me keep fighting. From the bottom of my heart. THANK YOU. I love you guys.’