Evangeline Lilly says she has brain damage after a traumatic fall last year at Hawaii beach

Evangeline Lilly says she has encephalon harm aft fainting and falling connected a boulder astatine a formation successful Hawaii past year.

The “Ant-Man and the Wasp” prima kicked disconnected 2026 by sharing an update astir her concussion connected Instagram. In a video posted Friday, Lilly said that “almost each country successful [her] encephalon is functioning astatine a decreased capacity” since she “smashed [her] look open.”

“I’m entering into this caller year, the Year of the Horse, with immoderate atrocious quality astir my concussion,” the “Lost” alum said. “A batch of you asked however I’m doing. A batch of you person inquired astir the encephalon scans that you heard I got. And the results came backmost from the scans and [showed] I bash person encephalon harm from the [traumatic encephalon injury] and perchance different factors going on.”

Lilly, who played second-gen superhero Hope van Dyne successful aggregate installments of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, shared successful a Substack station successful May saying that she had “fainted astatine the beach” and “fell look archetypal into a boulder.” She besides said she has a past of blacking retired and that doctors person been incapable to find why.

In the caption of the video update, the 46-year-old wrote that it is “comforting to cognize [her] cognitive diminution isn’t conscionable peri-menopause” but that it’s “discomforting to cognize what an uphill conflict it volition beryllium to effort to reverse the deficiencies.”

“Now my occupation is to get to the bottommost of that with the doctors and past embark connected the hard enactment of fixing it, which I don’t look guardant to, due to the fact that I consciousness similar hard enactment is each I do,” Lilly said successful the video. “I’m feeling extraordinarily grateful and blessed to beryllium capable to play 1 much day, 1 much year, connected this beauteous surviving satellite ... Thank you each for caring.”

Lilly’s onscreen ma and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” co-star Michelle Pfeiffer sent her enactment successful the Instagram post’s comments.

“You are a warrior. Nothing-not adjacent this volition decision you my friend,” Pfeiffer wrote. Actors David Dastmalchian and Alyssa Milano were besides among the Instagram well-wishers.

Lilly, who portrayed resourceful level clang subsister Kate Austen for each six seasons of “Lost” arsenic good arsenic Elven archer Tauriel successful 2 installments of Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” trilogy, announced successful 2024 that she was taking an “indefinite hiatus” from acting.