Evangeline Lilly says she has brain damage after fainting and falling on a rock on a Hawaii beach last year.
The “Ant-Man and the Wasp” star began the year 2026 by sharing an update about his concussion on Instagram. In a video posted on Friday, Lilly said that “almost all areas in [her] The brain is functioning at a diminished capacity” since she “broke [her] open face.”
“I'm entering this new year, the Year of the Horse, with bad news about my concussion,” the “Lost” alum said. “A lot of you asked me how I'm doing. A lot of you asked me about the brain scans you heard they did on me. And the results came back from the scans and [showed] I have brain damage from it [traumatic brain injury] and possibly other factors that are happening.”
Lilly, who played second-generation superhero Hope van Dyne in multiple installments of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, shared in a Substack post in May that she had “fainted on the beach” and “fell face-first into a rock.” He also said he has a history of fainting and doctors have not been able to determine the reason.
In the caption of the video update, the 46-year-old wrote that it is “comforting to know [her] Cognitive decline is not just perimenopause,” but it is “disturbing to know how difficult it will be to try to reverse the deficiencies.”
“Now my job is to get to the bottom of this with the doctors and then embark on the hard work of fixing it, which I'm not looking forward to, because I feel like working hard is all I do,” Lilly said in the video. “I feel extraordinarily grateful and blessed to be able to play one more day, one more year, on this beautiful living planet… Thank you all for caring.”
Lilly's on-screen mother and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” co-star, Michelle Pfeiffer, sent her support in the comments of the Instagram post.
“You are a warrior. Nothing, not even this, will defeat you, my friend,” Pfeiffer wrote. Actors David Dastmalchian and Alyssa Milano were also among the Instagram supporters.
Lilly, who played resourceful plane crash survivor Kate Austen during all six seasons of “Lost,” as well as elven archer Tauriel in two installments of Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” trilogy, announced in 2024 that she would be taking an “indefinite hiatus” from acting.
