{"id":222592,"date":"2026-01-06T01:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222592\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:20:07","slug":"marvel-star-evangeline-lilly-reveals-brain-damage-diagnosis-after-traumatic-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/222592\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Star Evangeline Lilly Reveals Brain Damage Diagnosis After Traumatic Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2024<\/a>, Ant-Man and Avengers: Endgame star Evangeline Lilly<\/a> officially announced her retirement from acting. After becoming a major hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring in The Hobbit trilogy of movies, and appearing in 120 episodes of LOST<\/a>, Lilly revealed online she would be stepping away from \u201cthe obvious choice,\u201d but did caveat a potential \u201creturn to Hollywood one day.\u201d In May of 2025, Lilly suffered a freak accident after passing out on the beach and hitting her head on a boulder. Now, the former Hope Van Dynne actress has taken to social media to offer a somber confirmation to fans that her injury has resulted in lasting effects.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am entering into this new year, the Year of the Horse, with some bad news about my concussion,\u201d Lilly said in a video posted to Instagram earlier this year. \u201cA lot of you asked how I\u2019m doing. A lot of you have inquired about the brain scans that you heard I got. And the results came back from the scans and almost every area in my brain is functioning at a decreased capacity. So I do have brain damage from the TBI, and possibly other factors.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201c\u201cBut now my job is to get to the bottom of that with the doctors and then embark on the hard work of fixing it, which I don\u2019t look forward to because I feel like hard work is all I do,\u201d Lilly said in the post. \u201cBut that\u2019s okay. My cognitive decline since I smashed my face open has helped me to slow down and helped me to have a more restful finish to my 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lilly\u2019s announcement didn\u2019t go unnoticed by her Marvel co-stars who offered their well wishes. Michelle Pfeiffer, who played Lilly\u2019s mother, Janet Van Dyne, in both Ant-Man and the Wasp and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, commented on the post, writing: \u201cYou are a warrior. Nothing-not even this, will defeat you my friend. \u2764\ufe0f\u201d David Dastmalchian, who also appeared in all three films, commented as well with a trio of hearts for Lilly.<\/p>\n

Since making her debut as Hope in 2015\u2019s Ant-Man, Lilly starred in all three movies alongside Paul Rudd and returned to her character in Avengers: Endgame as well. Given her retirement announcement almost two years ago, it was already unlikely she would return for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars, but that doesn\u2019t mean the character\u2019s story won\u2019t be addressed. Though Hope will likely not appear, she\u2019ll no doubt be referenced in some way, as Paul Rudd will return as Scott Lang, and a recent leak revealed that Kathryn Newton will seemingly return<\/a> as his daughter, Cassie. It would be pretty unthinkable for these two not to address Hope\u2019s place in the MCU, but it does offer Marvel the opportunity to give the character a happy ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in 2024, Ant-Man and Avengers: Endgame star Evangeline Lilly officially announced her retirement from acting. After becoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,121628,85,46,53913],"class_list":{"0":"post-222592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-evangeline-lilly","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-regular-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}