‘Star Wars' child actor Jake Lloyd has schizophrenia, his mom reveals

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Nearly 25 years ago, Lloyd played a young Anakin Skywalker in “The Phantom Menace.”

Child star Jake Lloyd had already appeared in multiple episodes of “ER” and shared the screen with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie “Jingle All the Way” before he was cast as a young Anakin Skywalker in “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace” nearly 25 years ago. For the next few years, he lent his voice to more Star Wars projects before disappearing from the public eye following a schizophrenia diagnosis, his mother shared in a recent interview.

Lisa Lloyd remembered her son saying he saw “black eyes” looking at him on the street and had conversations with Jon Stewart while watching “The Daily Show.” In 2008, he left school and moved in with his mom in Indiana. There, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, which is now called schizophrenia. He has a history of schizophrenia on his father’s side, Lisa Lloyd later revealed in the interview.

Seven years later, he was arrested after leading police on a chase and crashing his car. He spent 10 months in jail. “And he turned the car off in the middle of the three lanes, and we were in the middle lane,” she said. “The police got there, and they asked Jake some questions. He was talking to them, but none of it made sense. It was all word salad.”

 

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