Evangeline Lilly shares devastating brain injury months after falling face-first on boulder

Months aft sharing that she fell face-first into a boulder, Evangeline Lilly revealed she besides suffered encephalon harm successful nan incident.

“Verdict’s in… I do person encephalon harm from my (traumatic encephalon injury). Comforting to cognize my cognitive diminution isn’t conscionable peri-menopause, discomforting to cognize what an uphill conflict it will beryllium to effort to reverse nan deficiencies,” she wrote successful an Instagram post connected Friday.

“Thank you each for ever asking, for ever caring, and for your continued prayers 🌺” she added.

In an accompanying video, nan “Hobbit” actress, 46, said she’s “entering into this caller year, nan twelvemonth of nan horse, pinch immoderate bad news astir my concussion.”

Lilly informed followers that scan results showed “almost each area successful [her] encephalon is functioning astatine a decreased capacity.”

“I do person encephalon harm from nan TBI and perchance different factors going on,” she added.

The “Ant-Man and nan Wasp” star said her occupation is now “to deed nan bottommost of that pinch nan doctors and past embark connected nan difficult activity of fixing it, which I don’t look guardant to because I consciousness for illustration difficult activity is each I do. But that’s okay.”

The “Lost” character — who announced her status from acting successful June 2024 — showed disconnected nan bloody injuries she sustained aft fainting connected a rocky formation successful May.

“I fainted astatine nan beach. And fell look first into a boulder,” she wrote successful a Substack essay astatine nan time, including photos of her bruised and lacerated nose, mouth, and chin.

The character besides appeared to person dislodged a beforehand bony successful nan schematic photos.

After recalling that she “blacked retired again” connected nan measurement to nan hospital, Lilly wrote that aesculapian unit astatine nan installation “went consecutive into action” but were “more wished to find nan origin of [her] blackout than to stitch up nan spread punctured into [her] look by nan rock.”

“You won’t find anything,” she recounted telling them successful a “woozy” voice.

“I person had ‘absent’ and fainting spells since I was a small girl,” she continued successful nan essay. “The doctors checked maine for epilepsy erstwhile I was young and past settled connected nan thought of hypoglycemia (without doing immoderate testing).”

However, arsenic she “got older, and different wellness issues started to participate nan picture,” she felt hypoglycemia didn’t make sense.

Ultimately, she reached nan “conclusion” that her “soul longs to return. That erstwhile she has had enough, erstwhile nan symptom becomes excessively great, nan stresses beyond overwhelming, nan shattered idealism crushing, [her] psyche exits [her] assemblage and returns to axenic spirit.”

Lilly wrote that she is “not nan only personification who has blackout episodes that are not explained.”

“The caregiver who was tending [to] maine successful nan infirmary told maine that astir patients pinch this rumor are ne'er fixed a aesculapian reply arsenic to why they blackout [sic],” she explained.

“Not pinch bosom monitors, glucose monitors nor humor tests. They conscionable person to unrecorded successful nan enigma of not knowing.”

Lilly called her “unmedical” test “a beautiful invitation” to research nan anticipation that location is “more to beryllium felt successful nan not knowing.”