3. She Escaped To Rwanda When Lost Hit The Big Time
Back when Lost became, like, the biggest show on television in 2006, Lilly found herself ill-prepared for everything that went with being a successful actress and sex symbol. She felt overwhelmed by her new-found fame, in fact, and reportedly struggled to find a delicate balance with her new Hollywood life and her older, more conventional existence. At the time, she expressed her thoughts on her situation as such:
"I'm doing everything in my power just to continue to tick along as a normal girl. And fighting the weird, surreal insanity of what my life has become in just a single year."
Alas, her world came crashing down when she split from her then-husband, and in an attempt to escape from the mania of Hollywood, she fled to... Rwanda. Yep: Rwanda. "I holed up and read and wrote and prayed," she said of the time she spent in the African country. "I just disappeared off the face of the earth."
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
