Evangeline Lilly Suffers Brain Damage After Falling in Hawaii

Actress Evangeline Lilly says she sustained brain damage after fainting and landing face-first on a boulder during a trip to Hawaii last year.

“Verdict’s in… I do have brain damage from my (traumatic brain injury). Comforting to know my cognitive decline isn’t just peri-menopause, discomforting to know what an uphill battle it will be to try to reverse the deficiencies, ” the Lost actress wrote in an Instagram post on January 2nd.

She expanded on her condition in a recorded video, saying that brain scans confirmed that “almost every area in my brain is functioning at a decreased capacity.” She added, “But now my job is to hit the bottom of that with the doctors and then embark on the hard work of fixing it, which I don’t look forward to because I feel like hard work is all I do. But that’s okay.”

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When the accident in Hawaii first occurred this past spring, Lilly wrote about the “fainting spells” she’d experienced since childhood in a Substack post. She said she’d long believed she suffered from hypoglycemia, but later blood work seemed to rule that out. Now, she’s “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. Or ‘leaves the meat suit’ might be a better way of putting it.”