Yolanda Foster’s Health Advocate, April, Talks About Her Prostitution Past And Acting

Yolanda Foster’s health advocate, April Daisy White, who viewers of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills have seen on several episodes of the show, has spoken up about Yolanda’s battle with Lyme disease. In an interview with the Daily Dish, posted on Thursday, April praised Yolanda’s strength and criticized those who question Yolanda’s illness, as well as that of her two children, Bella and Anwar Hadid. April also talked about her past as a prostitute and actress.

April, who has worked with Yolanda for a year, explained that she has been mentored by Dr. Klinghardt, who works at the Sophia Health Institute, and Dr. Kang, for the past 15 years. A week ago, Yolanda posted a photo of herself with Dr. Klinghardt, whom she called her “guiding light.”

About six months ago, April traveled with David and Yolanda Foster to Cleveland, Ohio, for Yolanda’s surgery to remove her breast implants, one of which had ruptured. Yolanda and her health team believed that the ruptured implant was contributing to her illness and hindering her recovery. The surgery was shown in an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. While David remained outside of the operating room, April was inside the operating room, watching the surgery as it took place. She took photos.

After the surgery, the doctor told David that Yolanda’s situation was the worst one she saw in her many years of performing explant surgeries. The doctor even told David that Yolanda had free-floating silicone all the way up to her collarbone.

April was also very forthcoming with the Daily Dish about her difficult upbringing and her past in prostitution. She said that her acting was a way for her to heal from her painful past.

“Acting and writing for me were an outlet for healing, although I probably didn’t always know that. I wrote a one-person show about my life — where and how I grew up, the conditions of my abuse and early sexual abuse, the choices I made, how I was led into childhood prostitution before knowing its name and then became an international call girl, and how the truths of it all set me free.”

April, who wrote a chapter for the book Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys, said that she’s not ashamed of her past.

“I have fully owned my past and my transformation through prostitution. I have no guilt or shame about it, and I am proud to have shed light onto a part of humanity that was not well expressed at the time.”

Season 6 of The Real Housewives kicked off with some of the other housewives questioning Yolanda’s Lyme disease. On the most recent episode, Lisa Vanderpump, after being asked by Kyle Richards, said that Mohamed Hadid, Yolanda’s ex-husband, doesn’t think that his two younger children with Yolanda have Lyme disease. In a previous episode, Yolanda told Kyle that her two younger children, Bella and Anwar, also has Lyme. April told the Daily Dish that she knows firsthand that Yolanda, Bella, and Anwar have the disease.

“Seeing not just Yolanda, someone I’ve grown to care about deeply under such public scrutiny but her children who are also in the midst of a difficult health journey while trying to grow their lives and careers. I have also helped Bella and Anwar in their road to wellness this year and to hear people doubt the truth of their diagnosis, of all three of them is heart-wrenching. I am on the front lines of their recovery daily. I know all three of their medical records inside and out. I have attended every doctor’s appointment so I know what’s true. Their diagnosis is on paper, in black and white.”

As previously reported by the Inquisitr, both Yolanda Foster and Mohamed Hadid lashed out at the speculation over their children’s health. Lisa Vanderpump has since admitted that she misspoke about Mohamed’s feelings about his children’s health.

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