LOST star Evangeline Lily has given fans a heartbreaking health update after suffering a horrific accident last year.
The news comes months after the Marvel actor suffered a horrifying face-first fall into a boulder that sent the bloodied actor to the hospital.
Lilly posted a video on her Instagram account to let fans know she received a “brain damage” diagnosis following the accident and suffered cognitive decline.
“It’s late on January 1. The first day of 2026. I’m entering into this new year, the year of the horse, with some bad news about my concussion,” Lilly told fans in the video.
Lilly said she wanted to address fan concerns after receiving a slew of messages in the months since her fall.
“The results came back from the scan, and almost every area in my brain is functioning at a decreased capacity,” she said after suffering the traumatic brain injury.
She added: “I do have brain damage from the TBI and possibly other factors going on. My job now is to get to the bottom of that with my doctors.”
Lilly rose to fame as one of the lead stars of the groundbreaking TV show Lost. She played the character of Kate Austin in all of the show’s six seasons.
She went on to appear as the elf Tauriel in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films and Hope Van Dyne and the Wasp in a slate of Marvel Cinematic Universe films beginning with Ant-Man in 2015.
In June 2024, Lilly announced her retirement from acting to focus on family and her humanitarian work.
Nearly a year later, in late May, LIlly shocked fans when she posted gruesome photos of her battered face with a slash of dried blood caked above her lips after being rushed to a hospital in Hawaii.
The star was taking a stroll along a beach in Hawaii at a the time, she said.
“I fainted at the beach. And fell face first into a boulder,” she wrote after the accident.
She went on: “At the hospital, the nurses and doctor went straight into action, more determined to find the cause of my blackout than to stitch up the hole punctured into my face by the rock.
“I smiled wryly at them. ‘You won’t find anything.’ I said with a woozy voice…” she added.
In a post to Substack following her fall, Lilly elaborated on a history of fainting spells since she was a child, attributing them to a low blood sugar diagnosis.
But as she grew older and fainting spells continued, doctors told her it was not from the hypoglycemia she was believed to have.
“For a good chunk of my life, I went with that – hypoglycemia. It added up — my metabolism is through the roof and I metabolize sugars, particularly, with [shocking] efficiency,” she told Us Weekly.
For now, she said, the cause of her blackouts remains a mystery adding: “I have come to believe that this ‘checking out’ is a result of my little soul reaching her limit of what she feels she can cope with in this life, and she ‘leaves the building,’ so to speak.”
Fans and costars flocked to Instagram to share messages of support.
Even legendary actor Michelle Pfeiffer, who played Lilly’s mother in the Ant-Man films, sent a message of support.
“You are a warrior,” she wrote. “Nothing-not even this will defeat you my friend.”
To which Lilly replied with a simple, “Thanks, mama.”
It wasn’t all bad news from Lilly.
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/15727197/evangeline-lilly-brain-damage-lost-hobbit-ant-man/
