Star Wars Baby Star Jake Lloyd Shares Schizophrenia Well being Replace

Jake Lloyd, greatest identified for enjoying a younger Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace, supplied an replace on his schizophrenia prognosis.

In an interview with Clayton Sandell printed by way of Substack on Wednesday, January 1, Lloyd, 35, shared that he was “fairly good, contemplating these 20 years of time which have come to an finish.” He revealed in late 2024 that he was at the moment dwelling in a rehabilitation heart after finishing an 18-month keep at an inpatient psychological well being facility in Southern California.

Lloyd shared that, together with schizophrenia, he had been recognized with anosognosia. In accordance with the Cleveland Clinic, anosognosia is a neurological situation that causes somebody’s mind to not acknowledge their well being situations, typically inflicting sufferers to keep away from or resist remedy.

“I can now settle for taking up continued remedy, and remedy, and my meds. Everybody’s been very supportive,” Lloyd shared, describing how he feels whereas taking his remedy. “I don’t have the time for feeling unstable. It is vitally a lot a cushion.”

Lloyd was solely 8 years previous when he was forged as a younger Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace. In accordance with the previous actor, his expertise with Star Wars has been constructive general.

“The expertise I’ve had with the followers is instantly therapeutic,” he shared. “Proper now, it’s nonetheless therapeutic. It’s useful for individuals and wholesome. It isn’t one thing I’d shrink back from.”

He added that he nonetheless has fond recollections of his time making the Phantom Menace. “I actually do recognize the time that’s been taken on us,” Jake stated. “I’m very appreciative.”

Jake’s mom, Lisa Lloyd, informed Sandell, “Jake’s really getting so significantly better than he was. It’s a giant aid for me and the remainder of his household. We’re all simply thrilled that he’s doing in addition to he’s, and that he’s working actually exhausting at it. We recognize that.”

Jake was recognized with schizophrenia in 2016 after a 10-month stint in jail. Early in 2024, Lisa had opened up about Jake’s psychological well being struggles and revealed that he had been admitted to a psychological well being rehabilitation facility in March 2023 after struggling a psychotic break.

“Jake began having some bother in highschool,” Lisa defined in March 2024, recalling the primary time she seen a change in Jake’s persona. “He began speaking about ‘realities.’ He didn’t know if he was on this actuality, or a distinct actuality. I didn’t actually know precisely what to say to that.”

After he was admitted to the inpatient program, Lisa shared that Jake was “doing significantly better than [she] anticipated.” She shared, “He’s referring to individuals higher and changing into a bit of bit extra social, which is very nice. It’s form of like having extra of the previous Jake again, as a result of he has at all times been extremely social till he grew to become schizophrenic.”

Talking with Sandell in 2024, Jake shared that he loves all the new Star Wars media that has been launched in recent times, together with the brand new Star Wars: Ahsoka collection on Disney+.