Marvel’s Evangeline Lilly reveals ‘brain damage’ after falling on boulder

Revealing her fainting incident in May, Lilly said doctors had to “stitch up the hole punctured into my face by the rock”
Evangeline Lilly has revealed she has ‘brain damage’ following a fall (Ian West/PA)

Evangeline Lilly has revealed she has ‘brain damage’ following a fall (Ian West/PA)

Marvel star Evangeline Lilly has revealed she has “brain damage” after she fainted and “fell face first into a boulder”.

The 46-year-old revealed she had been taken to hospital following the incident in May last year, and said scans show her brain is “functioning at a decreased capacity” in “almost every area”.

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