Jake Lloyd, best known for his role as young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, has recently made headlines as his mother revealed that he is currently undergoing treatment in a mental health rehabilitation facility.

While conversing with Scripps News on Monday, Lloyd’s mother, Lisa Lloyd shared about her now 35-year-old son’s ongoing struggles with mental illness.

Lisa recalled the time she first noticed her son’s personality changing, as she said, “Jake started having some trouble in high school,”

She went on to say, “He started talking about ‘realities.’ He didn't know if he was in this reality, or a different reality. I didn't really know exactly what to say to that.”

Lisa reflected on the time when she asked him about his homework and he said to her, “I don't even know if I need to do it. I don’t know which reality I’m in.”

“And I'm like, ‘Well, you're in my reality today, so you have to do your homework,’” Lisa told about him.

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After his visit to a doctor, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she mentioned, and later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia which “totally threw him off into an even worse depression,” adding, “It was really hard.

She also recounted the moment when Jake had a hallucination she shared the incident when Jake phoned her, claiming he had been shot in his apartment.

However, Jake Lloyds is currently 10 months into an 18-month stay in a mental rehabilitation facility.

“He’s doing much better than I expected”, Lisa admitted, “He’s becoming a little bit more social. It's kind of like having more of the old Jake back because he has always been incredibly social until he became schizophrenic”.