Lisa Rinna Reveals Dad Frank Died by Assisted Suicide in 2016

• Lisa Rinna’s dad died in 2016 at age 94
• The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star revealed on the March 28 episode of her podcast together with her husband Harry Hamlin that her father died by assisted suicide
• The actuality star mirrored on being torn by her dad’s choice to finish his life, saying, “You need to assist what they need to do, however you are going to watch your guardian kill themselves”

Lisa Rinna tackled a painful matter on her newest podcast episode.

On the March 28 episode of her and husband Harry Hamlin’s Let’s Not Talk About the Husband, Rinna, 61, revealed that her father Frank died by assisted suicide in 2016. He was 94.

Hamlin, 73, mentioned that Frank’s “quality of life had diminished” to the purpose that he needed to die, and in Oregon, “you’re permitted to check out when you want to check out” as a result of Death with Dignity Act.

“When they set their mind to this, they’re ready,” the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum mentioned, including that her dad “was in pain” and “really unhappy” along with his life.

Still, Rinna felt torn about her father’s choice. “You want to support your loved ones. You want to support what they want to do, but you’re going to watch your parent kill themselves,” she mentioned.

However, Rinna mentioned her dad “wanted it so badly” and her mother “signed off on it,” so she and her half-sister accepted his selection.

Rinna went on to elucidate that the assisted suicide course of took three to 6 months and required her dad to have two docs log out on his terminal sickness, which they did. She additionally mentioned the assisted suicide happened in a “hospice situation” with a “death doula” and required Frank to drink “the juice, or whatever” that may finish his life.

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“You can’t administer it to somebody,” Rinna defined, as Hamlin clarified, “It has to be a willful act on their part.”

According to Rinna, Frank was desperate to die. “The pills were supposed to come on a Tuesday — so when they set their mind to this, they’re ready — so they didn’t come till Thursday,” the truth star shared. “And my dad was so mad that the pills didn’t come.”

Once the drugs got here, Rinna and her half-sister helped administer them to Frank. They set the scene by enjoying Frank Sinatra, which Hamlin mentioned his father-in-law “beloved.”

“It was like two o’clock in the afternoon, the light was coming in, there’s a lot of real beauty behind it,” Rinna mentioned. “We were playing some beautiful, also some yoga type beautiful music. But then, you mix it in the orange juice. It tastes like s—. It’s sour. But he’s got to drink it down. So you hand it to him and he drank it.”

However, Rinna mentioned there’s an element that “no person tells you and you do not count on” about assisted suicide. “It doesn’t happen right away,” she mentioned. “It took 45 minutes.”

From there, Rinna mentioned “they just fall asleep” and “it’s not anything gruesome.” The dying doula additionally had morphine readily available in case they wanted a backup plan.

The mother of two mentioned the entire expertise felt “trippy.” She added, “Almost so surreal that it did not, I did not really feel like I used to be in my physique.”

As a consequence, Rinna she uncared for to speak about her father’s assisted suicide publicly when all of it went down.

“I had began the present,” she mentioned, referring to RHOBH, “and I believe it was simply too painful on the time.”

If you or somebody you already know is contemplating suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, textual content “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or go to 988lifeline.org.