Evangeline Lilly has informed her fans about health concerns following a traumatic accident.
On her Instagram, the 46-year-old Canadian actress and author revealed that her brain was damaged as a result of an accident in Hawaii when she lost consciousness and hit her face on a boulder.
Lilly said: “The verdict is out… I have brain damage from my (traumatic brain injury).”
She added, “It’s comforting to know that my cognitive decline isn’t just perimenopause, and uncomfortable to know what an uphill battle it will be to try to reverse the deficiencies.”
On January 1, the Ant-Man and the Wasp star posted a video saying that her brain scans confirmed that “almost every area in my brain is functioning at reduced capacity.”
“But now my job is to get to the bottom of it with the doctors and then start the hard work of solving the problem, which I’m not looking forward to because I feel like hard work is all I’m doing. But that’s okay,” Lilly joked.
In particular the Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Alum suffered a terrifying accident, but it didn’t surprise her as she has struggled with “absence and fainting” since childhood. May 30 Substack essay.
