Former Star Wars Actor Jake Lloyd Receives Mental Health Treatment
Jake Llyod’s mother is providing updates to fans about his personal journey.
Lisa Llyod, the mother of the actor who portrayed young Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, recently shared that he has been admitted into a mental health rehabilitation facility.
“As a mother, you’re just pulling your hair out because your child needs help,” she told Scripps News in an article published on March 11. “You know that he’s sick.”
Jake, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2008 according to Lisa, retreated from the public eye in the early 2000s following the negative reaction to The Phantom Menace. However, his mother dismissed the idea that the criticism had a role in his mental health journey.
“It would have happened anyway,” she reflected. “I believe that it was genetic. And his psychiatrist also agrees that Jake was predisposed to schizophrenia.”
E! News reached out to Lisa for comment but has not received a response.