Jake Lloyd, who played little Anakin Skywalker in 1999, was not ready for insane popularity, so over time he developed schizophrenia.
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace star Jake Lloyd, who played little Anakin Skywalker, is in a psychiatric rehabilitation center. PEOPLE reported it.
According to his mother Lisa Lloyd, the problems started in high school, when she first noticed changes in her son’s personality.
“He started talking about ‘reality’. He doesn’t know if he’s in this reality or another reality. I don’t know what to say to that,” his son added that he didn’t know where he was. , and drop out of school.
She added that after Jake went to the doctor, a medical professional said he might have bipolar disorder.
According to Lisa, although she was prescribed several drugs to solve the problems, nothing helped.
In time, Jake graduated high school in 2007 and was eagerly awaiting the start of his fall classes at Columbia College of Chicago. However, according to Lisa, things began to change significantly here.
“He missed a lot of classes and told me people were watching him,” the woman said.
She said her son said he sees people with “dark eyes” staring at him in public and that he sometimes talks late at night with Daily Show host Jon Stewart through his TV screen.
He continued to see doctors until he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
“When they finally told him, it completely sent him into a worse depression,” Lisa Lloyd said.
He talked about how he refused to take medicine because he didn’t think he was sick. The man crashes his car and turns off his phone. And then he called on the phone and said that he was killed.
Jake is now 10 months into an 18-month stay at a psychiatric rehabilitation facility after what he called a full-blown mental breakdown in March 2023 when he stopped his car in the middle of a three-lane road and called the police.
The woman said Jake was feeling better. And he saw the new Star Wars movies.
“He loves all the new Star Wars stuff. People think Jake hates Star Wars. But he doesn’t. He loves those movies,” she said.
It was previously reported that the British actor of the Star Wars film saga, Michael Culver, has died.
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