Lost actress Evangeline Lilly has opened up about her health issues following a brain injury in mid-2025.
In May, the 46-year-old revealed she fainted at a beach and “fell face first into a boulder.”
”At the hospital, the nurses and doctor went straight into action, more determined to find the cause of my blackout than to stitch up the hole punctured into my face by the rock. I smiled wryly at them. ‘You won’t find anything.’ I said with a woozy voice,” she wrote on Instagram at the time.
Months later in January 2026, Evangeline shared an update on her concussion.
“Verdict’s in… I do have brain damage from my TBI (traumatic brain injury),” she captioned the video shared to Instagram. “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.”
In the video, she further explained that she was undergoing scans to understand what damage had been caused.
“Almost every area in my brain is functioning at a decreased capacity,” she admitted.
“So, I do have brain damage from the TBI and possibly other factors going,” the Marvel actress continued.
“But now my job is to get to the bottom of that with the doctors, 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,” she laughed. “But that’s 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.”
“I think this was the calmest, most restful Christmas holiday I have had maybe since I had children, so 14 years ago. So that’s a good thing.”
Evangeline Lilly does not publicly speak about her children. But we do know she welcomed her first child, Kahekili Kali, in 2011 with her partner Norman Kali. Their second unnamed child was born in 2015.
Despite the results of her brain scan and the undoubtedly hard road ahead for The Hobbit actress, Evangeline feels “extraordinarily grateful, blessed to be able to play one more day, one more year on this beautiful living planet.”
“Thank you all for always asking, for always caring, and for your continued prayers,” she concluded in the caption.
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