Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black Reveals He’s Recovering From “Serious” Head Injury - Deadline

Dustin Lance Black, winner of a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Milk, has revealed he suffered a serious head injury last month and is recovering, but that “the road back will be long.”.

In a post Monday on Instagram, Black, creator of FX’s recently released limited series Under the Banner of Heaven, did not reveal how he sustained the injury.

“So I vanished for a while… A month ago I sustained a serious head injury that put me out of commission,” Black wrote.

Black was with his husband, Olympic diver Tom Daley, at the time.

She claimed Black threw his drink at her “pretty much unprovoked and “I didn’t have a drink to throw back so I did choose violence, but I wasn’t that violent, he got a little tap on the head,” she added. Police were called but reported no injuries.