{"id":353873,"date":"2026-01-05T19:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353873\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:53:11","slug":"evangeline-lilly-reveals-brain-damage-uphill-battle-after-freak-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/353873\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangeline Lilly Reveals Brain Damage, Uphill Battle After Freak Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/evangeline-lilly\/\" id=\"auto-tag_evangeline-lilly_1\" data-tag=\"evangeline-lilly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evangeline Lilly<\/a> has revealed she has brain damage after medical tests revealed the extent of a concussion following a freak fall during a May 2025 holiday in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s late on January 1, the first day of 2026, and I am entering into this new year, the Year of the Horse, with some bad news about my concussion,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/lost-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lost-2_1\" data-tag=\"lost-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lost<\/a> alum said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTAUGiBDbAd\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a recent Instagram post<\/a>. \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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/damon-lindelof-abc-disney-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-lifted-1236375994\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-13859114732.jpg\" alt=\"Damon Lindelof\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/squid-game-season-3-italian-global-series-festival-2025-1236220812\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Squidgame_Unit_308_N009537.jpg\" alt=\"'Squid Game'\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Marvel universe star added that \u201cother factors\u201d beyond traumatic brain injury were at play as she faced having to recover from a fainting spell on a beach that led to her hitting her head on a boulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn written remarks added to the video post, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ant-man\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ant-man_1\" data-tag=\"ant-man\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ant-Man<\/a>\u00a0and the Wasp:\u00a0Quantumania star stated: \u201cVerdict\u2019s in \u2026 I do have brain damage from my tbi [traumatic brain injury]. Comforting to know my cognitive decline isn\u2019t just peri-menopause, discomforting to know what an uphill battle it will be to try to reverse the deficiencies. Thank you all for always asking, for always caring, and for your continued prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evangeline Lilly has revealed she has brain damage after medical tests revealed the extent of a concussion following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[81928,124951,96,114512,59,68849,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-353873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ant-man","tag-ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania","tag-entertainment","tag-evangeline-lilly","tag-gb","tag-lost","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}