“Psychosis On Display”: Brandi Glanville Goes Bold In Red Bikini After Face Disfigurement Diagnosis

Medical professionals increasingly challenged her parasite theory. In January 2025, plastic surgeon Dr. Terry Dubrow publicly suggested her symptoms were more consistent with an infectious process or a foreign body reaction linked to past facial injections.

“There are these two kinds of microorganisms, one’s called a Microbacterium and the other is called a fungus,” Dubrow explained. “They can be very difficult to treat and could take six to 12 months of antibiotics.”

A turning point came mid-2024, when Glanville began working with Dr. Michael R. Scoma, an infectious disease and immunology specialist in New York.

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Scoma reached out after seeing her distressed posts online, offering the expertise she said she had been desperately searching for.

By mid-August, Glanville shared a photo from his office showing visible improvement in her face.

“They say Twitter is the devil but all it took was me screaming in my tweets asking for help for this lovely man to reach out,” she wrote, even joking that she was excited to “make out” with someone once she healed fully.