Evangeline Lilly showed off the gruesome injuries she sustained after fainting on the beach and smashing her face into a massive rock.
“I fainted at the beach. And fell face first into a boulder,” the actress, 45, began a lengthy essay on Substack on Friday, later adding, “On the way to the hospital I blacked out again.”
Along with the article, Lilly published two photos of her bloodied and bruised nose, chin and mouth, which contained a crooked front tooth.
She explained that the doctor and nurses at the hospital “went straight into action” but were “more determined to find the cause of [her] blackout than to stitch up the hole punctured into [her] face by the rock.”
She said she “smiled wryly” as she informed them with a “woozy” voice, “You won’t find anything.”
Lilly’s heart, blood sugar and iron levels all came back normal — like she knew they would.
“I have had ‘absent’ and fainting spells since I was a little girl,” she wrote. “The doctors checked me for epilepsy when I was young and then settled on the idea of hypoglycemia (without doing any testing).”
The “Ant-Man” star spent “a good chunk” of her life believing that to be the case since it “added up.”
However, as she “got older, and other health issues started to enter the picture,” hypoglycemia began to make less sense.
“Even after a 12-hour fast, even after blacking out, my glucose levels never came back as low,” she shared, revealing that she has “come to believe” that this “checking out” is a result of her “little soul reaching her limit of what she feels she can cope with in this life, and she ‘leaves the building,’ so to speak. Or ‘leaves the meat suit’ might be a better way of putting it.”
Lilly has come to the “conclusion” that her “soul longs to return. That when she has had enough, when the pain becomes too great, the stresses beyond overwhelming, the shattered idealism crushing, [her] soul exits [her] body and returns to pure spirit.”
The brunette beauty went on to describe the “sense of euphoria” she feels coming out of one of her “episodes,” saying she’s immediately overcome with “pure love, light and peace.”
“There is no more serene feeling in the world. And then, quickly, reality comes rushing in. ‘Where am I? What is happening? Why is there a tooth in my mouth where it shouldn’t be? I can’t breathe. What is going on? Am I dreaming. I can’t breathe!’” she penned.
“I pull my face from the sand and take a breath. My mouth and nose are full of blood. Reality. Life. The meatsuit. Back again. For more. It was just a little tea break. A mini vacation. I didn’t leave forever. Just temporary relief.”
When Lilly faints, her eyes “roll back” in her head as “all life” leaves her body.
“I am not the only person who has blackout episodes that are not explained,” she made sure to note.
“The nurse who was tending [to] me in the hospital told me that most patients with this issue are never given a medical answer as to why they blackout [sic]. Not with heart monitors, glucose monitors nor blood tests. They just have to live in the mystery of not knowing.”
Lilly referred to the “unmedical” diagnosis — or lack thereof — as “a beautiful invitation.”
She acknowledge that “the past few months have been incredibly demanding.” And though she has tried to maintain her “daily meditative, breathing and prayer practices, to create more space, to listen more closely,” she has also chosen to tend to her “body,” “babies” and “dreams.”
According to the “Hobbit” star, we simply “can not [sic] have it all.”
“My blackout and resulting injuries forced me to drop everything. I was forced into stillness,” she admitted.
“From there, deep joy, peace and clarity arose that started in the liminal space I left to when I blacked out. It began there and has continued on for days since. 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.”
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