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Emily Willis health update as 'permanently disabled' star being cared for by mum at home
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Emily Willis' lawyer James Morris has gone into detail about the days leading up to the star's tragic medical incident as he confirms she is now being cared for by her mum at home
Ex-adult actress Emily Willis is being cared for by her mum at home after her lawyer confirmed she is now "permanently disabled".
In a major health update, Emily's family have confirmed she is now paralysed. They have filed a lawsuit against the rehab centre she was staying at to treat a ketamine addition. Emily, whose real name is Litzy Lara Banuelos, was found unconscious on the floor of her room at the facility having suffered a cardiac arrest.
Now, exactly one year on from the tragic event, Emily's lawyer has spoken exclusively with the Daily Star on what led up to the incident – as well as the heartbreaking toll it has taken on her loved ones.
Attorney James Morris says Emily, 25, remains unable to move or speak after sustaining severe brain damage following the medical crash at Summit Malibu treatment centre.
Instead of closely monitoring the actress as they promised to do in their intake documents, the lawsuit says staff observed Emily’s quickly deteriorating health over several days but did not send her to a hospital for advanced medical care.
Mr Morris told the Daily Star: "She has been most recently been transferred to her mother's home, and she is there and she is being cared for by her mother.
"That may have changed in the last day or two, things are pretty fluid with regard to her care and treatment because from time to time she does need to go in [to the hospital] and have more care than she can receive at home."
Emily arrived at Summit Malibu on January 27, 2024, but the suit goes on to state that on February 4 a nurse practitioner found her unconscious. While it is unclear how long she had been in this state before being discovered, the nurse called 911, started CPR and called others to assist.
The arriving paramedics are said to have performed CPR for between 30 and 40 minutes before obtaining a heartbeat, but by then the lack of oxygen to her brain for such a long time left Emily paralysed.
Mr Morris revealed: "When Emily checked into Summit Malibu she had already begun cold turkey, stopping any ketamine ingestion, and through her stay there all the blood tests were clean.
"She was no longer on ketamine and from her perspective she was going through these circumstances of withdrawal that often occur with some kinds of addictions.
"A person who's taking that particular drug will have difficulty handling things such as abdomen problems, oftentimes they will have dizziness, oftentimes they will be fatigued. And those types of symptoms are fairly normal, but in this circumstance Emily's condition began to decline more rapidly than obviously the hospital people recognised.
"Now as of February 2 they did recognise it. They called for an ambulance, an one came to the site, they said to her 'you need to go to the emergency room'. She was very hesitant to do that, she said 'no I'm just going through ordinary withdrawals and I'll be fine', she was very bold and courageous about it.
"What they failed to adequately diagnose was the fact that her system had begun to decline significantly. On February 3 she attended none of her sessions that day, we really don't know from the records what occurred that day, we won't know until we take some depositions.
"But then as of the February 4 a nurse entered her facility room and found her unconscious. She began to administer CPR, called for the emergency representatives to come and assist, they came in and took over the process and were able to resuscitate her – but it looks like she has an anoxic brain injury."
While it is known Emily has a severe brain injury, experts are still scrambling to diagnose her medical condition. However, asked if there is any prospect of Emily regaining any kind of control of her life, Mr Morris added: "At this point I haven't found anyone that has a good understanding whether or not that will be possible.
"I will say this – it's been a year now as of today, February 4, one year since the crash occurred [her medical condition]. I think if you had watched it over time you would have been quite amazed that she's still with us, she's still fighting and she's still resilient.
"Her physical being is not in good shape, she's lost a great deal of weight and is unable to of course move at all. And so her physical condition is not good, her mental condition is unknown, but she's still here. I think that in and of itself says something about her resilience and her desire to live.
"And with modern medicine and the advances that we have in science, we can all hope that she gets back to the functioning level that makes her life worthwhile."
Summit Malibu has not responded to requests for comment.
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WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Emily Willis' lawyer James Morris has gone into detail about the days leading up to the star's tragic medical incident as he confirms she is now being cared for by her mum at home
Ex-adult actress Emily Willis is being cared for by her mum at home after her lawyer confirmed she is now "permanently disabled".
In a major health update, Emily's family have confirmed she is now paralysed. They have filed a lawsuit against the rehab centre she was staying at to treat a ketamine addition. Emily, whose real name is Litzy Lara Banuelos, was found unconscious on the floor of her room at the facility having suffered a cardiac arrest.
Now, exactly one year on from the tragic event, Emily's lawyer has spoken exclusively with the Daily Star on what led up to the incident – as well as the heartbreaking toll it has taken on her loved ones.
Attorney James Morris says Emily, 25, remains unable to move or speak after sustaining severe brain damage following the medical crash at Summit Malibu treatment centre.
Instead of closely monitoring the actress as they promised to do in their intake documents, the lawsuit says staff observed Emily’s quickly deteriorating health over several days but did not send her to a hospital for advanced medical care.
Mr Morris told the Daily Star: "She has been most recently been transferred to her mother's home, and she is there and she is being cared for by her mother.
"That may have changed in the last day or two, things are pretty fluid with regard to her care and treatment because from time to time she does need to go in [to the hospital] and have more care than she can receive at home."
Emily arrived at Summit Malibu on January 27, 2024, but the suit goes on to state that on February 4 a nurse practitioner found her unconscious. While it is unclear how long she had been in this state before being discovered, the nurse called 911, started CPR and called others to assist.
The arriving paramedics are said to have performed CPR for between 30 and 40 minutes before obtaining a heartbeat, but by then the lack of oxygen to her brain for such a long time left Emily paralysed.
Mr Morris revealed: "When Emily checked into Summit Malibu she had already begun cold turkey, stopping any ketamine ingestion, and through her stay there all the blood tests were clean.
"She was no longer on ketamine and from her perspective she was going through these circumstances of withdrawal that often occur with some kinds of addictions.
"A person who's taking that particular drug will have difficulty handling things such as abdomen problems, oftentimes they will have dizziness, oftentimes they will be fatigued. And those types of symptoms are fairly normal, but in this circumstance Emily's condition began to decline more rapidly than obviously the hospital people recognised.
"Now as of February 2 they did recognise it. They called for an ambulance, an one came to the site, they said to her 'you need to go to the emergency room'. She was very hesitant to do that, she said 'no I'm just going through ordinary withdrawals and I'll be fine', she was very bold and courageous about it.
"What they failed to adequately diagnose was the fact that her system had begun to decline significantly. On February 3 she attended none of her sessions that day, we really don't know from the records what occurred that day, we won't know until we take some depositions.
"But then as of the February 4 a nurse entered her facility room and found her unconscious. She began to administer CPR, called for the emergency representatives to come and assist, they came in and took over the process and were able to resuscitate her – but it looks like she has an anoxic brain injury."
While it is known Emily has a severe brain injury, experts are still scrambling to diagnose her medical condition. However, asked if there is any prospect of Emily regaining any kind of control of her life, Mr Morris added: "At this point I haven't found anyone that has a good understanding whether or not that will be possible.
"I will say this – it's been a year now as of today, February 4, one year since the crash occurred [her medical condition]. I think if you had watched it over time you would have been quite amazed that she's still with us, she's still fighting and she's still resilient.
"Her physical being is not in good shape, she's lost a great deal of weight and is unable to of course move at all. And so her physical condition is not good, her mental condition is unknown, but she's still here. I think that in and of itself says something about her resilience and her desire to live.
"And with modern medicine and the advances that we have in science, we can all hope that she gets back to the functioning level that makes her life worthwhile."
Summit Malibu has not responded to requests for comment.
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