Dustin Lance Black Expects Full Recovery From Head Injury by Christmas

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Elizabeth Taylor Dustin Lance Black is opening up about his recovery from a head injury he suffered earlier this year. While the Oscar-winning screenwriter hasn’t detailed what happened to him, he told Variety at Thursday’s premiere of “Mama’s Boy,” HBO’s new documentary adaptation of his 2019 memoir, that doctors expect a full recovery. “What’s been really challenging is not being able to use my mind,” Black said on the carpet, which also served as the opening night film of LGBTQ film festival NewFest. “And I didn’t share it publicly until I was at a place where I was able to be a little creative again — at least for a few hours a day in the morning with breaks.” Pointing out “the outpouring of love’ he has received, the Oscar winner reflected on how the support is helping him heal. “It takes a long time to come up with the next thought or word.

It’s going to come back and the doctors are saying that hopefully by before Christmas, I’ll be back to Lance,” he said Black also reflected on the opening night red carpet of NewFest. “It’s really meaningful to know that a lot of people have been where I am and, in a way, as a writer I go, well, this is a wonderful learning experience and gives me a point of view on mental health and physical mental health,” he said. “I never really had a firsthand connection with it and now I do, so I have another thing I can write about.

It’s hard. It’s not easy, but I’m here and I’m not going to miss this.” The premiere marked Black’s first public appearance since revealing the head injury in a Sept.

26 Instagram post. “The reason I crossed an ocean when I shouldn’t be here and doing all the press and stuff is it’s really very critical that people start to reach out and share space with