Lisa Rinna’s Daughter Amelia Gray Got Sepsis from Nipple Injury at Coachella

Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin’s daughter, model Amelia Gray, developed the life-threatening infection sepsis when her freshly pierced nipple became infected after falling into a bush at Coachella.

Rinna surprised Hamlin with the news that Amelia had had a nipple ring during the Sept. 5 episode of Let’s Not Talk About the Husband, the podcast she and Hamlin co-host. 

“In the teenage years, I’m gonna say when everybody was like 19, yeah, there was some nipple piercing going on,” Rinna, 62, disclosed. 

“Really?” an astonished Hamlin, 73, replied. “How come I was out of the loop on that?”

“I don’t think were like, ‘Hey, dad … You wanna look at my nipple piercing?” Rinna replied, adding that neither Amelia, now 24, or their oldest daughter Delilah Belle, now 28, asked for permission before getting their nipples pierced. 

She then went on to share that there was “a little issue” with daughter Amelia at Coachella. “I think it’s a cautionary tale,” Rinna said. “She was, like, up on a balcony. Somebody pushed her, like, pushing forward. And her boob went into, like a bush, and it jammed the nipple into the boob.”

When she came home that night, “All of a sudden she had a super high fever, and her boob was this big.”

Rinna shares that they brought her to the emergency room for an X-ray at two in the morning. “We thought maybe something was wrong with her ribs. She knew that she’d been pushed.”

“But the somehow you guys kept the fact that she had a nipple ring from me,” Hamlin interjected.

“I just don’t think you remember. I don’t think it was a secret at that point,” Rinna said. 

“Well, I think I would remember nipple rings on my daughter,” he retorted.

“Let me finish,” Rinna replied. “Her boobs swelled up to this humongous size … we didn’t know what to do, so we called an infectious disease doctor. She had to go to the infectious disease doctor. She had sepsis,” Rinna said of the life-threatening condition, where the body responds improperly to an infection. “Sepsis in her freaking boob.” 

“From the nipple ring?” Hamlin asked.

“Yeah,” Rinna replied, elaborating, “from whatever it punctured. She punctured something when she went into the bush.”

“I don’t wanna hear anymore,” Hamlin stated. 

“She had sepsis, she had to be on IV antibiotics for a week,” Rinna said, adding they had a nurse come to their home for two more days of treatment. “It was actually very dangerous, guys. It was dangerous.” 

“So there’s another cautionary tale. Don’t get a nipple ring,” Hamlin said.

Rinna shared that Amelia took out her piercings after her health struggle — as did Delilah, explaining, “She took them out, too, because Amelia’s tale was very cautionary, and nobody wanted to die because they had a freaking nipple ring.”

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