United Kingdom, Aug. 13 -- Perez Hilton checked into hospital with "severe depression" just weeks before attempting suicide.

The 48-year-old celebrity gossip blogger - whose real name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr - was hospitalised last week after self-harming in a disturbing TikTok livestream and his sister Barbara Lavandeira has told how around two weeks before that day, her brother had approached her and their mom Teresita Lavandeira to confide in them about how "empty" he had been feeling.

She told the New York Post's PageSix: "He told us that a few days earlier, he had felt empty, hopeless and like he was a burden on everyone. He then admitted that one night when he couldn't sleep, he had taken the remaining painkillers from his ...