Trending badgeTrendingPosted 2 hours agoEvangeline Lilly Shared A "Traumatic" Health Update After She Fell Face-First On A Boulder"I'm entering the new year with some bad news."by Mychal ThompsonBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Evangeline Lilly is sharing a startling health update after a serious injury she sustained last year. Dave Benett / Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/WireImage The Ant-Man and the Wasp star revealed in an Instagram post shared on Jan. 2 that she has brain damage after a May 2025 accident in Hawaii, where she fainted and landed face-first on a boulder. NBC / Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty Images "Verdict's in...I do have brain damage from my (traumatic brain injury). 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," she wrote. @evangelinelillyofficial / instagram.com In the video, recorded on Jan. 1, Evangeline shared that results from the brain scans verified "almost every area in my brain is functioning at a decreased capacity." @evangelinelillyofficial / instagram.com The Lost star shared that in addition to brain damage from the TBI (traumatic brain injury), there might be other factors going on. "But now my job is to hit the bottom of that with the doctors and then 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. But that's okay," she continued. Jun Sato / WireImage On May 30, 2025, Evangeline posted on her Substack account that she fainted and hit her face on a boulder. "I fainted at the beach. And fell face first into a boulder," she wrote. "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." Warning This image is graphic Tap to reveal Click to reveal @evangelinelillyofficial / instagram.com Evangeline explained that she's always had fainting spells since childhood, and after doctors ruled out epilepsy, they told her that she had low blood sugar or hypoglycemia. "For a good chunk of my life, I went with that - hypoglycemia. It added up - my metabolism is through the roof and I metabolize sugars, particularly, with shocking efficiency," she said. Phillip Faraone/GA / The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images "But, as I got older, and other health issues started to enter the picture, my doctor started doing a LOT of blood work. What was interesting was how, even after a 12-hour fast, even after blacking out, my glucose levels never came back as low. Hypoglycemia, it seemed, was being ruled out." Corey Nickols / Getty Images for IMDb The Hobbit trilogy actor suggested that her overall emotional health might be the reason for her fainting spells. "I have come to believe that this 'checking out' is a result of my little soul reaching her limit of what she feels she can cope with in this life, and she 'leaves the building,' so to speak," she said. "It is my conclusion, after enough of these episodes and enough medical testing to rule out different factors, that my soul longs to return," she continued. "That when she has had enough, when the pain becomes too great, the stresses beyond overwhelming, the shattered idealism crushing, my soul exits my body and returns to pure spirit." @evangelinelillyofficial / instagram.com Ultimately, Evangeline said that after waking up from her fainting spells, she's "filled with a sense of euphoria" before the serene feeling flees and "reality comes rushing in." "I pull my face from the sand and take a breath. My mouth and nose are full of blood," Evangeline wrote. "My partner says that when I black out, I look like I die. He gets very afraid. My eyes roll back in my head and all life leaves my body." Warning This image is graphic Tap to reveal Click to reveal @evangelinelillyofficial / instagram.com She continued that the months following the incident were incredibly demanding but forced her to drop everything as "deep joy, peace and clarity arose" that "started in the liminal space [she] left when [she] blacked out." View this photo on Instagram @evangelinelillyofficial / Instagram: @undefined "It might seem crazy looking at my face and my busted tooth, but I feel so grateful that I blacked out. I needed the reset," Evangeline said back in May 2025. @evangelinelillyofficial / instagram.com Best wishes to Evangeline as she continues her recovery.