Jake Lloyd’s Mother Pushes Back Against Idea That He Hates Star Wars

One principle about Star Wars youngster actor Jake Lloyd, who performed younger Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace, is that he hates Star Wars and that backlash to his character led to his psychological well being struggles. Each issues should not true, his mom, Lisa, stated in a brand new interview with Scripps Information.

She stated, “He loves all the brand new Star Wars stuff. Individuals suppose Jake hates Star Wars. He loves it.” Lloyd has been watching the Ahsoka TV collection on Disney+ and his mom gave him an motion determine of Ahsoka for his birthday lately.

Lisa additionally confused that it is her perception that the backlash to The Phantom Menace didn’t result in Jake’s psychological sickness and his resolution to stop appearing.

“It might have occurred anyway,” Lisa stated, including that his organic father’s facet of the household has a historical past of schizophrenia. “I imagine that it was genetic. And his psychiatrist additionally agrees that Jake was going to grow to be schizophrenic.”

Jake is now 10 months into an 18-month keep at an inpatient facility for psychological well being rehabilitation. He is doing higher already, his mom stated.

“He’s referring to folks higher and turning into just a little bit extra social, which is very nice. It is sort of like having extra of the outdated Jake again, as a result of he has at all times been extremely social till he grew to become schizophrenic,” she stated. “He is doing a lot better than I anticipated.”

Jake went to the power after affected by what his mom described as a psychotic break in March 2023 when he was driving dwelling after choosing up meals. “The police received there, they usually requested Jake some questions. He was speaking to them, however none of it made sense. It was all phrase salad,” she stated.

Earlier than this, in 2008, a health care provider stated Jake had paranoid schizophrenia, and this analysis prompted Jake’s melancholy to worsen, his mom stated. In 2015, Jake was arrested on a roadtrip from Florida to Canada. His mom employed an legal professional to assist get him out of jail, however Jake by no means responded, and he spent 10 months in jail. In 2018, Jake’s youthful sister Madison died of pure causes in her sleep. “He simply could not deal with it. He did not know tips on how to course of it,” his mom stated.

For extra, try the complete Scripps Information story.