Evangeline Lilly is sharing some photos of her gruesome injuries after fainting at the beach.
On Friday (May 30), the 45-year-old Ant-Man and the Wasp actress revealed that she passed out, fell, and hit her face on a bolder.
“I fainted at the beach. And fell face first into a boulder,” Evangeline wrote on her Substack and Instagram accounts while sharing selfies of her bloody face. “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.”
Keep reading to find out more…Evangeline went on to explain that she’s had fainting spells ever since she was a little girl. After doctors ruled out epilepsy, they ultimately told her that she has hypoglycemia, (low blood sugar).
“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 explained. “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.”
The Lost alum then admitted that she believes her fainting spells might be connected to her emotional well-being.
“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,” Evangeline 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. 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.”
When she wakes up after fainting, Evangeline said that she’s filled with a sense of euphoria and feels like she’s at peace, but then she’s brought back to reality.
“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.”
She also said that these past few months have been demanding after this fainting spell, she has been forced to “drop everything” and be still.
“It might seem crazy looking at my face and my busted tooth, but I feel so grateful that I blacked out,” Evangeline added. “I needed the reset.”
Last year, Evangeline opened up about her decision to step away from Hollywood.