Star Wars' Jake Lloyd Receiving Treatment After 'Full-Blown Psychotic Break,' Mom Updates On His Health
14.03.2024 - 05:49
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Jake Lloyd, the child actor who famously brought a young Darth Vader to life in Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace, is recovering after suffering what his mother described as “a full-blown psychotic break.”
It’s been 25 years since Jake played Anakin Skywalker in the 1999 Star Wars movie. He was replaced by Hayden Christensen after the character aged up between the first and second movies.
In the years since landing the breakout role, Jake has largely stayed out of the spotlight and left acting behind.
In a recent interview, his mom Lisa opened up about how he was doing, his relationship with Star Wars and his personal struggles.
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Lisa told Scripps News that he is “doing much better than [she] expected” as he receives treatment at an inpatient mental health rehabilitation center. He’s been in the treatment center for about 10 months and has eight to go.
She explained that her son has privately dealt with mental health struggles for years.
“Jake started having some trouble in high school,” Lisa recalled. “He started talking about ‘realities.’ He didn’t know if he was in this reality, or a different reality. I didn’t really know exactly what to say to that.”
She added that he was “hearing voices,” which he didn’t tell them at the time. However, he did tell her that “people were following him” when he went to college after graduation.
After he left school, doctors diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia, which “threw him off into an even worse depression.” Jake was also diagnosed with anosognosia, which is a neurological condition where patients do not believe that they are sick and thus don’t think they need to take medicine.
Jake was arrested in 2015 after a high speed car chase,